Chief Strategy Officer at Astronomer & PMC Member of Apache Airflow
Vikram is currently working as the Chief Strategy Officer at Astronomer and is on the Apache Airflow PMC.
Vikram’s contributions to Airflow started with Scheduler HA released as part of Airflow 2.0. He has worked on architecture, design, and proposals for Data Driven Scheduling, Dynamic Tasks, Setup / Teardown, and now Airflow 3. His open source background started as an early author of the GNU Debugger (GDB) co-contributing it’s remote debugging feature.
Sessions by Vikram Koka
- Introducing Apache Airflow® 3 – The Next Evolution in Orchestration (2025)
- Common provider abstractions: Key for multi-cloud data handling (2025)
- Airflow as a Platform for Agentic AI Digital Products Within Enterprises (2025)
- Introducing Apache Airflow® 3 – The Next Evolution in Orchestration (2025)
- The road ahead: What’s coming in Airflow 3 and beyond? (2024)
- Running Airflow Tasks Anywhere, in any Language (2024)
- Micropipelines: A microservice approach for DAG authoring using datasets (2023)
- A Hypervisor for Airflow, presented by Astronomer (2023)
- Customizing Xcom to enhance data sharing between tasks (2021)