RJ is an Internal Database Engineer specializing in Planning, Optimization, and Query Runtime. He was a founding engineer in the zero-to-one development of three database-as-a-service products: MotherDuck, Aurora DSQL, and most recently, Lightning Tables at Confluent. He has also led data teams at Samsung and OpenX for their real-time bidding ads business. Currently, he is the architect and principal developer for the new real-time analytics engine, Lightning Tables, at Confluent.