Ignite Summit Committee

Dmitry Pavlov

Apache Ignite PMC Chair
Chief Technology Expert

Dmitry has 18 years in software development; Chief Technology Expert; an active member of the Apache Software Foundation. Apart from Ignite Community, he is also Apache Training (Incubating) Committer and PPMC member.

Valentin Kulichenko

Apache Ignite PMC
GridGain Director of Product Management

Valentin is a passionate, open-source Apache Ignite community member and a PMC member. He dedicates his time to public speaking, contributing code, and providing technical help through the dev and user mailing lists.

Saikat Maitra

Apache Ignite PMC
Target Principal Engineer

Saikat Maitra is Principal Engineer at Target and Apache Ignite Committer and PMC Member. Prior to Target, he worked for Flipkart and AOL (America Online) to build retail and e-commerce systems. Saikat received his Master of Technology in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani.

Maxim Muzafarov

Apache Ignite PMC
Java Team Lead

A certified programmer with more than ten years of experience, Maxim uses object-oriented analysis and design to develop enterprise-application software systems. Previously, Maxim worked with PL/SQL databases. Now, he develops a low-level, distributed storage component of an IT platform that are used to create business-automation applications. An active member of the Apache Ignite community, Maxim contributes to the Apache Ignite project and is a member of the Product Management Committee.

Denis Magda

Apache Ignite PMC
GridGain Vice President of Developer Relation

Denis Magda is an open-source software enthusiast who started his journey in the technology evangelism group of Sun Microsystems and Java engineering team of Oracle. He now supports the Apache Software Foundation in the roles of Apache Ignite committer and Project Management Committee member. As the Head of Developer Relations for GridGain, he works with software engineers and architects to help them gain expertise in in-memory computing and Apache Ignite in particular.