Jesse Yates is a Staff Engineer at Tesla and leads the development of real-time stream processing on the Data Platform Team. Prior to Tesla, Jesse created a real-time IoT data startup, helped Salesforce build the first enterprise-grade Apache HBase installation, and consulted on healthcare, defense, and cross-cloud analytic projects. He is also a committer on Apache HBase and a PMC member of Apache Phoenix, both big data storage and query projects.