Alexander Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda Data, a high-performance, Apache Kafka-compatible data streaming platform for mission-critical workloads. He has spent his career immersed in deeply technical environments and is passionate about finding and building solutions to the challenges of modern data streaming.
Before Redpanda, Alex was a principal engineer at Akamai and the co-founder and CTO of Concord.io, a high-performance stream-processing engine acquired by Akamai in 2016. He has also engineered software at Factset Research Systems, Forex Capital Markets, and Yieldmo; and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and cryptography from NYU.
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