Ahmet Altay, a Software Engineering Manager at Google, leads a team that develops open-source data-processing systems. He is also a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and contributes to the Apache Beam project. Previously, he worked at Microsoft on operating systems and earned a master's degree from Stanford University. Originally from Turkey, Ahmet now lives in California and shares his joy of open spaces, long walks, sci-fi, and learning with his friends and family.

Ahmet loves to think about software and organizations, and shares his thoughts on his blog at altay.me.