Torsten Steinbach has a long record working as a database architect. He led the IBM Db2 performance tooling and worked on the workload managers in IBM Netezza and IBM Db2. He also led the deep integration of machine learning into IBM’s RDBMS. Over the past few years, Torsten built from scratch IBM’s cloud data lake platform, which is heavily based on open source software such as Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.