Reuven Lax

Reuven Lax is a senior staff software engineer at Google Seattle, and has spent the past nine years helping to shape Google's data processing and analysis strategy. For much of that time he has focused on Google's low-latency, streaming data processing efforts, first as a long-time member and lead of the MillWheel team, and more recently founding and leading the team responsible for Windmill, the next-generation stream processing engine powering Google Cloud Dataflow. He's very excited to bring...See more

Reuven Lax is a senior staff software engineer at Google Seattle, and has spent the past nine years helping to shape Google's data processing and analysis strategy. For much of that time he has focused on Google's low-latency, streaming data processing efforts, first as a long-time member and lead of the MillWheel team, and more recently founding and leading the team responsible for Windmill, the next-generation stream processing engine powering Google Cloud Dataflow. He's very excited to bring Google's data-processing experience to the world at large, and proud to have been a part of publishing both the MillWheel paper in 2013 and the Dataflow Model paper in 2015. When not at work, Reuven enjoys swing dancing, rock climbing, and exploring new parts of the world. See less