Becket is a Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, he joined LinkedIn and began working on Apache Kafka. He later joined Alibaba, where he led the Apache Flink team and worked on key areas including Flink SQL, PyFlink, Flink ML, and connectors.

Becket returned to LinkedIn in 2022, where he has been driving the unification of stream and batch processing and the development of LinkedIn’s next-generation autonomous data infrastructure.

Becket is a PMC member of Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Fluss, Apache Paimon, and Apache Celeborn.

Becket has been active in the streaming and data infrastructure community for over a decade. He started contributing to Apache Kafka in 2014 and Apache Flink in 2018. Over the years, he has contributed to core features in Kafka and Flink as well as projects across their ecosystems, spoken regularly about Kafka and Flink, and served on the program committees for multiple editions of Kafka Summit, Current, and Flink Forward.

Beyond Kafka and Flink, Becket has also mentored several open-source projects, including Apache Fluss, Apache Paimon, Apache Celeborn, and Apache Auron, helping emerging projects and their communities grow.