Sijie Guo

Sijie Guo is a prominent figure in the field of data infrastructure and cloud-native technologies, serving as the Founder and CEO of StreamNative. He has a significant background in messaging systems, having been one of the original creators of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper. His career began at Yahoo!, where he contributed to the development of a global messaging platform. He later joined Twitter, where he led the messaging infrastructure group and co-created DistributedLog and Twitter EventBus.

In 2017, Guo co-founded Streamlio, which focused on building enterprise-grade real-time platforms and was subsequently acquired by Splunk. Following this, he founded StreamNative in 2019, which offers a cloud-native event streaming platform based on Apache Pulsar. Guo remains actively involved in the Apache Software Foundation as a Vice President of Apache BookKeeper and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member for Apache Pulsar.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science: Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2003 - 2007)
• Master's Degree in Computer Science: Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007 - 2010)

Key Contributions

• Creator of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper.
• Leadership roles at Yahoo! and Twitter, focusing on messaging systems.
• Founder of StreamNative, enhancing cloud-native streaming capabilities.

Guo resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and continues to influence the development of real-time data processing technologies through his work at StreamNative and contributions to open-source projects.