Martin Traverso
Co-Creator of Presto / Trino, CTO at Starburst Data
Bio
Martin is the Co-Creator of Presto and Trino and CTO at Starburst Data. Previously, he was a Software Engineer at Facebook where he lead 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 and now Trino. In the Spring of 2013, Martin and the team rolled out what was then Presto into production at Facebook where it was later made open source in the Fall of 2013. Since then, Trino has gained wide adoption from companies like Netflix, Amazon, and LinkedIn and built a thriving community of data analysts and engineers.
