Josh Fischer is a software engineer at Scotcro and an active open source contributor in the streaming data space. He is an Apache Committer and part of the project management committee for the Apache Heron distributed stream processing engine, used to power real-time data pipelines.

Professionally, Josh has spent his career working with large datasets in real time, for organizations such as 1904labs and Bayer. That combination of production stream processing experience and open source stewardship gives him deep insight into the practical challenges of moving data at scale, from throughput and latency to the operational discipline that reliable streaming systems demand.