Helena Edelson

Complexity & Network Theory, Distributed Systems, Bio-Inspired Computation. Speaker.

Helena did her academic work in scientific research (biology) before getting in software engineering. She is currently a Principal Engineer at Lightbend, and member of the Akka team. Formerly at Apple working on platform infrastructure working on distributed data/analytics/ml (aaS*) at massive scale, VP of Product Engineering at Tuplejump building a multi-tenant stream analysis machine learning platform, Senior Cloud Engineer at CrowdStrike working on cloud-based realtime Cyber Security threat analysis, and Senior Cloud Engineer at VMware automating cloud infrastructure for massive scale.

She is a keynote speaker, and session speaker at Kafka Summit, Spark Summit, Strata, Scala Days, Reactive Summit, QCon, Philly Emerging Tech. And is a contributor to several open source projects including Akka and FiloDB.