Airflow PMC member & Committer | Director - Airflow Engineering at Astronomer
Kaxil is currently working as the Director of Airflow Engineering Team @ Astronomer. Currently, he is one of the top three committers of the Airflow Project based on the number of commits.
Most prominent works include co-authoring DAG Serialization, Scheduler HA, Secrets Backend.
He did his Masters in Data Science & Analytics from Royal Holloway, University of London.
He 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.
Sessions by Kaxil Naik
- 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)