Micah is the co-founder and CEO of Arroyo, a startup building a new open-source stream processing engine. He was previously tech lead for streaming compute at Splunk, where his team built infrastructure to manage hundreds of customer Flink pipelines, and at Lyft, where he built real-time data infra powering Lyft's dynamic pricing, ETA, and safety features. He has worked on many big data batch and streaming systems in his decade-plus career across domains including ad-tech, fraud protection, and the on-demand economy.