Martin Traverso

Chief Technology Officer

Martin is the Co-Creator of Trino and Presto. He is a CTO at Starburst where he leads research and development on Trino. Previously, he was a Software Engineer at Facebook where he led the Presto development team, and an architect at Proofpoint and Ning. Martin joined Facebook in 2012 when, at the time, Hive was the de facto platform for SQL analytics at Facebook. Seeing a need for fast interactive SQL analytics, Martin and 3 other engineers worked to create what became Presto. In the Spring of 2013, Martin and the team rolled out Presto into production at Facebook where it was later made open source in the Fall of 2013. In 2019, he and the other founders created a Trino fork off of Presto. Since then, Trino has gained wide adoption both internal and external to Facebook.

Talks About
#scalability #hadoop #distributedsystems

Preferred Locations
#UnitedStates