People to follow

Notable engineers and researchers in the OLAP and data engineering space: creators of ClickHouse, DuckDB, Apache Spark, Apache Arrow, dbt, Trino, and Apache Druid.

People to follow

Name Description GitHub Twitter/X LinkedIn Bluesky
Alexey Milovidov Co-founder and CTO of ClickHouse alexey-milovidov @fdooch123 in/alexey-milovidov-clickhouse
Hannes Mühleisen Co-creator of DuckDB, CEO of DuckDB Labs hannes @hfmuehleisen in/hfmuehleisen bsky
Mark Raasveldt Co-creator of DuckDB Mytherin @mraasveldt in/mark-raasveldt-256b9a70 bsky
Wes McKinney Creator of Pandas, co-creator of Apache Arrow and Parquet wesm @wesmckinn in/wesmckinn bsky
Martin Traverso Creator of Presto and Trino, CTO at Starburst martint @mtraverso in/traversomartin
Matei Zaharia Creator of Apache Spark, co-founder and CTO of Databricks mateiz @matei_zaharia in/mateizaharia
Jacques Nadeau Co-creator of Apache Arrow, Apache Drill, and Dremio jacques-n in/jacquesnadeau bsky
Andrew Lamb PMC member for Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet alamb @andrewlamb1111 in/andrewalamb bsky
Andy Grove PMC member of Apache Arrow and DataFusion. Author of "How Query Engines Work" andygrove in/andygrove bsky
Tristan Handy Founder and CEO of dbt Labs jthandy @jthandy in/tristanhandy bsky
Fokko Driesprong PMC member on Apache Avro, Airflow, Druid, Iceberg, and Parquet Fokko @_Fokko in/fokkodriesprong
Gian Merlino Co-founder and CTO of Imply, co-creator of Apache Druid gianm @gianmerlino in/gianmerlino
Phil Eaton Database and systems engineer, writer on database internals eatonphil @eatonphil in/eatonphil bsky