Dr. Justin Levandoski is a Director of Engineering at Google working on BigQuery, where he leads the Lake Analytics and Omni cross-cloud data warehousing infrastructure efforts. Prior to Google, he was a principal engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he worked on Amazon Aurora, a cloud-native operational database system. Before that, he was a member of the database group at Microsoft Research, where he worked on main-memory databases, database support for new hardware platforms, transaction processing, and cloud computing. His research was commercialized in a number of Microsoft products, including the SQL Server Hekaton main-memory database engine, Azure CosmosDB, and bing. He was an associate editor for IEEE TKDE and has served as area chair for SIGMOD 2019, SIGMOD 2016 and ICDE 2016.