Gian
Merlino

Gian is co-founder and CTO at Imply, and a driving force behind Imply Lumi, an Observability Warehouse. His work focuses on keeping more data searchable at a lower cost while accelerating investigations with no workflow disruptions. Gian is one of the original authors of the open source Apache Druid® project and served as the Apache Druid project's first PMC chair. Previously, Gian led the data ingestion team at Metamarkets and held senior engineering positions at Yahoo. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Caltech.