Kaxil Naik

Airflow PMC member & Committer | Senior Director of Engineering @ Astromomer.io

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.

He is a huge cricket fan, and his favourite cricketers are Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli.

Sessions by Kaxil Naik

• Gen AI using Airflow 3: A vision for Airflow RAGs (2024)
• Airflow 3 - Roadmap Discussion (2024)
• Building and deploying LLM applications with Apache Airflow (2023)
• Introducing airflowctl: A CLI to streamline getting started with Airflow (2023)
• The Faces of Airflow: A peek into the past and future (2023)
• What's new in Airflow 2.3? (2022)
• Airflow loves Kubernetes (2021)
• Upgrading to Apache Airflow 2 (2021)
• Contributing to Apache Airflow | Journey to becoming Airflow's leading contributor (2021)
• Ask me anything with Airflow members (2020)
• Keynote: Future of Airflow (2020)