Davor Bonaci is a proven software executive, joining DataStax following the merger with Kaskada, a venture-backed machine learning company, where he served as a co-founder and CEO. Previously, Davor served as the chair of the Apache Beam Project Management Committee and as an engineer at Google Cloud since its early days and the inception of Cloud Dataflow. Davor holds more than a half-dozen patents and earned his Master's degree from the University of Washington. Outside work, Davor is an avid sailor and can often be found racing on Lake Washington.