Co-Founder & CEO, Treasure Data

Kazuki “Kaz” Ohta is the CEO of Treasure Data, and was the founding Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the company. Prior to that, he co-founded the world’s largest Hadoop User Group in 2009. A long-time open source advocate, he has made numerous contributions to open source software and was instrumental in developing the open-source applications Fluentd, Embulk and Messagepack.