Staff Software Engineer at Astronomer
Rahul Vats, a seasoned Apache Airflow contributor with 13+ years of experience, specializes in testing and ensuring the reliability of Airflow 3 and upcoming Airflow releases. His expertise in quality assurance, automation, and system testing plays a key role in enhancing the platform’s stability and functionality. Passionate about driving improvements, Rahul actively contributes to the development and testing of new features, making Airflow more robust and efficient for users worldwide.

Sessions by Rahul Vats
- Behind the Scenes: How We Tested Airflow 3 for Stability and Reliability (2025)
- Benchmarking the Performance of Dynamically Generated DAGs (2025)
- Beyond Execution Dates: Empowering inference execution and hyper-parameter tuning with Airflow 3 (2025)
- Hello Quality: Building CIs to run Providers Packages System Tests (2024)