Till Rohrmann
Co-Founder at The Apache Software Foundation
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolTill Rohrmann is a co-founder and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, currently focused on making distributed development simpler with Restate in Berlin. As an Apache Flink PMC member and long-time contributor, he has shaped Flink’s distributed architecture, high-availability services, and libraries for machine learning and complex event processing, and has hands-on experience maintaining build and CI tooling across flagship Flink repos. He blends deep research-rooted expertise—studies at TU Berlin, École Polytechnique and NUS—with product-minded execution from roles at Ververica and the ASF. A frequent conference speaker, Till pairs systems-level thinking with practical automation (notably build and dependency work for flink-statefun and flink-web), and actively recruits engineers for distributed systems and big-data roles.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Mathematics and Computer Science, Exchange Mathematics and Computer Science at École PolytechniqueBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Technical University of MunichMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinExchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at National University of Singapore
German, English, French
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apache-flink
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Github Skills (22)
dependency-management10
apache-flink10
sbt10
flink-sql10
java10
scala10
javas10
build-automation10
apache-spark9
cicd9
bash9
apache-kafka9
maven8
streaming6
future6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink-web
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
Apache Flink Website
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 48 commits, 24 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Till primarily contributed to the development of scripts and build configurations, specifically for creating a Flink project using Scala and SBT. Their contributions involved writing scripts to set up the project structure, defining dependencies, and integrating the SBT assembly plugin. They also updated the scripts to utilize newer Flink versions, demonstrating a focus on build automation and project setup within the Flink ecosystem. These changes facilitate the creation and management of Flink applications.
flinkapachebig-datasparkapache-flink
apache/flink-statefun
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Apache Flink Stateful Functions
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 20 commits, 14 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Till's contributions primarily involve maintaining and updating the project's dependencies and build processes. They bumped the Flink dependency, updated the project version, and modified the build scripts to improve performance. Additionally, they added a script to update playground links. The user's work ensures that the project is up-to-date, built correctly, and uses the correct dependencies.
flinkapachebig-datasparkapache-flink
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