Kaxil Naik is a seasoned technology leader in the data engineering community, best known for his contributions to Apache Airflow.
His journey in the tech industry is marked by a passion for open-source projects. At Astronomer, a leading force in the Apache Airflow community, Kaxil leads efforts to enhance the Apache Airflow as well as enhance the Astronomer platform’s capabilities, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of today’s data-driven enterprises as the Senior Engineering Director.
Most prominent works include co-authoring DAG Serialization, Scheduler HA, Secrets Backend as well as driving Airflow 2.0.
He did his Masters in Data Science & Analytics from Royal Holloway, University of London. Started as a Data Scientist and then gained experience in Data Engineering, BigData and DevOps space. He began working on Airflow in 2017 while working at Data Reply as a BigData consultant and became a PMC member in 2018 and now works full-time at astronomer.io making Airflow better for everyone.
He is a huge cricket fan and his favourite cricketers are Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli.