• Define and drive company-level technical strategy for critical systems, ensuring long-term innovation for Tableflow’s storage and metadata engines. • Architect and evolve a high-performance, metadata management system that supports low latency updates and efficient query planning. • Design and implement innovative strategies for table schematization, materialization, and compaction at a massive scale. • Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure for background computational tasks, ensuring the platform is optimized for scalability, reliability, and resilience. • Establish and evangelize engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technical frameworks adopted across the organization. • Partner with executives, product management, and engineering leaders to align technical vision with business objectives. • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, growing future technical leaders and shaping a culture of engineering excellence and open-source contribution. • Lead contributions to relevant open-source projects like Apache Iceberg and represent Confluent externally through technical talks and thought leadership.