Avtar Raikmo, Head of Platform Engineering, Hazelcast

Avtar started his career working in the financial services industry, in high throughput and real-time data intensive domains such as Trading and Market Data. Then going on to work at Meta, where learning to operate at a global scale was mandatory for success. Now, returning to his preferred domain of high throughput real-time data processing, Avtar leads the Platform Engineering division at Hazelcast.

Articles by Avtar Raikmo, Head of Platform Engineering, Hazelcast

What Is a Unified Real-Time Data Platform (and Four Questions to Ask When Evaluating One)

The use of real-time data has become common in industries such as finance, retail, and healthcare. This has optimized everything from fraud detection to personalized online shopping, even ensuring that hospitals are staffed with appropriately skilled workers and supplies at the right time. Not only is the use of the technology spreading across industries and companies of all sizes and types, it's evolving to integrate streaming event-based data with historical data to provide contextualized (and more intelligent) insight for actions.

Posted December 13, 2023