Alex Gallego created Redpanda in 2019 with the vision of making real-time data accessible to all developers. Prior to Redpanda, Alex was the co-founder and CTO of Concord.io, a high-performance stream-processing engine acquired by Akamai in 2016. Alex began his career as a hacker and builder in his hometown of Manizales, Colombia and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and cryptography from NYU.