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We’re so excited to announce that Chrissy Gikas has joined the Superblocks team as our Sales Development Manager, located in Boston, MA! Prior to joining, Chrissy was most recently at Starburst & Salsify where she was building out & leading their Business Development Teams. Outside of work, you can find Chrissy on a run, trying new restaurants in Boston & planning her next trip around the world. Please join us in welcoming Chrissy to the team!

We’re so excited to announce that Edris Ahmady has joined the Superblocks team as a Solutions Engineer here at our NYC headquarters! Prior to joining Superblocks, Edris was at Landa, where he was responsible for technical support & led the efforts to build out the customer service team from the ground up. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, late night bike rides around New York & being a film critic on Letterboxd. Please join us in welcoming him to the team!

And that's a wrap on Current by Confluent! 🎉 Our team had a great time meeting leaders and engineers exploring new ways to use real-time streaming data to drive impact at their companies. A big thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to chat – we loved hearing about your work and sharing how Superblocks can help you deliver data to every function of your business. Looking forward to continuing the conversation! 💬 #Current2024

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We’re so excited to announce that Achal Channarasappa has joined the Superblocks team as our Head of Solutions here at our NYC headquarters! Prior to joining Superblocks, Achal was at Starburst where he built & managed a team of solutions architects focused on delivering enterprise-grade analytics to some of their biggest customers. He’s also spent time over at companies such as MuleSoft & Accenture, where he positioned API-led integration architectures & developed front end applications for some of their strategic accounts. Outside of work, he enjoys perfecting his martini & coffee brewing techniques, developing black & white photographs, and defending his title as the slowest runner in Central Park Please join us in welcoming him to the team!

We’re so excited to announce that Colin Hicks has joined the Superblocks team as a Software Engineer! Prior to joining Superblocks, Colin was a founding engineer at a streaming infrastructure company, and later on spent nearly 6 years over at Confluent where he made significant contributions to building core Kafka and stream processing. Outside of work, you can find Colin surfing on the coasts of North Carolina, where he resides with his family. Please join us in welcoming Colin to the team!

⭐ Meet Sam Tomczyk: One of our Founding Members & Recruiter here at Superblocks! ⭐ 🐨 What do you work on here at Superblocks? I help lead the recruiting function here at Superblocks. Anything from GTM to Engineering, I help candidates navigate through the interview process from the first interview to the offer stage! You can also occasionally find me at a conference center talking to the technical community about Superblocks(maybe even showcasing a demo from time to time!) 🐨 What is the purpose of the Recruiting team? The purpose of recruiting isn’t just to fill the job requirements, rather to attract and engage with individuals who are genuinely interested in working on problems that we are solving for our customers. 🐨 What were you working on prior to joining Superblocks? Before joining Superblocks, I spent time over at Datadog where I was focused on hiring top tier talent within their engineering & product teams. I also spent time consulting at Google hiring for the Google Cloud Platform team. 🐨 What keeps you here at Superblocks? It’s crazy that I’ve been here for long enough where I can see the true growth & impact of the product & the organization. The company has nearly tripled in size since I joined, and seeing the impact each person has on the team & product as they come in is extremely motivating! 🐨 Favorite Hobby outside of work? Outside of work, you can find me working on a new recipe I found in a cookbook or training for my next endurance race(this year’s being the New York City Marathon!)

We’re so excited to announce that Thomas Mante has joined Superblocks as our Head of Partnerships, where he will help build and develop our partner ecosystem! Tom has an impressive track record with both channel and alliance partnerships, where he has successfully grown and scaled partner ecosystems at Looker, Google, Firebolt and most recently KX. Outside of work, you can find Tom golfing, playing guitar, traveling, and trying new restaurants with his wife & daughter. Please join us in welcoming Tom to the team!

We’re so excited to announce that Weyman Cohen has joined Superblocks as a Sales Development Representative here in our NYC Headquarters! Prior to joining, Weyman graduated from Duke University & kicked off his career in the database space at the likes of Cockroach Labs & Event Store. When he’s not out helping customers, you can find him on the basketball court, pingpong table, or on the hiking trails around the Greater New York area. Please join us in welcoming Weyman to the team!

⭐ Meet Grant Zyskowski: One of our talented Solutions Engineers working out of our NYC HQ here at Superblocks! ⭐ 🐨 What do you work on here at Superblocks? I work on the Solutions Engineering team, primarily on the post-sales side where I partner with our Customer Success team. Together, we provide white glove technical support, training, and enablement for our customers, ensuring they get the most value out of the Superblocks platform. 🐨 What is the purpose of the Solutions team? The Solutions team serves as the front lines for technical support; whether that’s live chat, pre-sales product demos, or post-sales training. We must have expertise in multiple parts of the tech stack (data integrations, frontend & backend programming languages, application design, source control, and more) in order to effectively support our clients, write technical documentation, and keep a tight feedback loop with the Product and Engineering teams. 🐨 What were you working on prior to joining Superblocks? Before joining Superblocks, I was a Technical Account Manager at Datadog. There, I worked with enterprise customers across e-commerce, financial services, and telecommunications to provide best practices for monitoring their infrastructure, applications, and logs. 🐨 What keeps you here at Superblocks? I honestly love using the product and get a ton of value being able to build our team’s operational tooling without having a major web development background. It’s a huge unlock for our team’s productivity and it’s very exciting to hear that echoed when I talk to people at conferences or get feedback from existing customers. 🐨 Favorite Hobby outside of work? Drums and music are my biggest passions. I play every week in a studio in Brooklyn and enjoy going to shows whenever I can. Also doing my best to keep the hockey dream alive at Chelsea Piers where I play in a league. Go Ice Dogs.