Q&A with Erik Steinholtz, Jim Dowling & Yasar Kaya

Presale/TAM with 10 years in international software companies. Primary experience is from Business development and startup in the local geography. Extensive experience in SOA, BPM, B2B, EAI, and EDI, and a broad range of applications and technologies.

Erik wants to work with leading technologies and bring them to their potential for broad recognition in the local marketplace.

Specialties: Solution Selling, Technical Visioneering /Evangelism, IT architecture, articulating technical USPs, Competitor monitoring, Technical evaluation.

Yasar Kaya is a solution architect with a current role at Databricks. Based in the Nordics, Yasar primarily handles the company's financial services industry. However, his expertise doesn't stop there. He honed and strengthened his skills at Hive Streaming, a scale-up company where he served as a real-time AM data engineer. Kaya's focus largely revolved around streaming data engineering, wherein he actively got involved in operations. He understands the significance of delivering high-quality Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and guarantees, especially when offering real data products to clients. Yasar's hands-on approach and his keen understanding of customer requirements distinguish him in his field.

Jim Dowling is CEO of Hopsworks and an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He is lead architect of the open-source Hopsworks Feature Store platform and organizer of the Feature Store Community at featurestore.org.