About us – bytewax

Our journey

starFebruary 2021

Bytewax Launch

Bytewax was founded by Zander Matheson with the aim of making data streaming in Python more accessible.

insightsFebruary 2022

Bytewax is open sourced!

Open sourcing Bytewax - a stream processing framework:
🐍 Python native
🚀 Highly scalable
🌩️ Cloud native

Star our GitHub

sailingAugust 2022

First ever company offsite!

The first company offsite takes place in Santa Cruz, US with eleventy employees attending. Sailing boat, building strong relationships, making memories what can be better!

celebrationAugust 2022

Bytewax is used in production!

Bytewax is officially running in users' production, signifying the next step in Bytewax's journey.

spellcheckMarch 2023

The alpha launch of the Bytewax Platform

The Bytewax Platform has entered the alpha testing phase, a select group of users are now able to try out the platform and provide feedback.

Try the platform

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The Future

Who knows what the future will hold? But one thing is certain - Bytewax has many more exciting developments yet to come!

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Meet our team

Our journey began with a shared goal to simplify the data streaming. Today, we are a committed team of enthusiasts who are passionate about stream processing and deeply invested in the well-being of our users.

Zander Matheson

CEO, Co-founder

Zander is a seasoned data engineer who has founded and currently helms Bytewax. Zander has worked in the data space since 2014 at Heroku, GitHub, and an NLP startup. Before that, he attended business school at the UT Austin and HEC Paris in Europe.

Oli Makhasoeva

Director of Developer Relations and Operations

Oli is a passionate technologist with a background in engineering, consulting, and community building. On a break from creating content, she loves to network online & in person at meetups, conferences, and forums.

Dan Herrera

VP of Engineering

Dan Herrera is the VP of Engineering at Bytewax. Before Bytewax, he worked at GitHub, specializing in designing large-scale streaming data systems. Previously, Dan worked at Simple--founding the first Data team before joining leadership as the VP of Engineering.

Esteban Miccio

Software & Infrastructure Engineer

Esteban has worked in software development since 2002 in many companies and projects as a full-stack developer, architect, release engineer, and team leader. Passionate about DevSecOps, containers, cloud-native, and k8s, he is an AWS Certified Solution Architect and a GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect.

David Selassie

Software Engineer

David Selassie is a highly skilled and hands-on Engineering Leader who brings over a decade of expertise to the table. He spearheads the entire lifecycle of creating and implementing Bytewax's innovative platform. David's exceptional expertise in tech allows him to deliver cutting-edge solutions to nontrivial problems.

Federico Dolce

Software Engineer

All-around software developer, Federico started his career as a backend Python developer. He later worked on frontend, mobile and game development, and became interested in DevOps and k8s.

Blake Johnson

Software Engineer

Blake is a Senior Engineering Leader with a decade of experience. She drives the design, development, and deployment of innovative full-stack applications and backend infrastructure, aligning business requirements with roadmaps to deliver new cutting-edge solutions at scale.

Konrad Sienkowski

Front-end developer

Konrad is a front-end developer & UI designer with 8 years of experience in developing websites & applications. His design background - graphic design & communication design faculties at university, combined with practice - makes him focus on user experience and details.