Becket is currently a Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn. He started to work on Apache Kafka at LinkedIn after he graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. After that, he joined Alibaba and led the Flink team focusing on Flink SQL, PyFlink, Flink ML, Connectors, among others. He returned to LinkedIn in 2022 to drive the effort of stream and batch unification. Becket is a PMC member of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.

Becket has been active in the streaming community for over 10 years. He started to work on Apache Kafka in 2014, and Apache Flink in 2018. He develops features for core Kafka, Flink and their ecosystems projects, gives talks about Kafka and Flink, and has served multiple times in the program committee of Kafka Summit, Current, and Flink Forward.