Maximilian Michels
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Max is a Software Engineer at Crate.io and a PMC member of Apache Flink and Apache Beam. During his studies at Free University of Berlin and Istanbul University, he worked on a distributed open-source database at Zuse Institute Berlin. Inspired by the principles of distributed systems and open-source, he joined Data Artisans to help develop the next generation open-source streaming system: Apache Flink. Max currently works for Crate.io which builds a distributed SQL database for large-scale IoT machine data.