Jerry Peng is currently an Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks extensively working Apache Spark Structured Streaming. Before joining Databricks, he was a Principal Software Engineer at Splunk working on streaming and messaging projects especially with Apache Pulsar and Apache Flink. Jerry is a committer and PMC member of Apache Pulsar, Apache Storm, and Apache Heron projects. Before Splunk, he worked at Streamlio (acquired by Splunk), Citadel, and Yahoo on distributed systems and stream processing. Jerry has been working in the area of distributed systems and stream processing since his days in grad school at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.