Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai is an Apache Flink PMC and Senior Software Engineer at Ververica. He is currently working on the Stateful Functions (https://statefun.io)  project in Apache Flink. In the past, he has contributed to various other parts of the Apache Flink project, including some of the more popular streaming connectors for Flink (Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, etc.) as well as several topics surrounding evolvability of stateful Flink streaming applications.