Congratulations Ramin! Well deserved news :D Kind regards, Mika
> On 21. Oct 2026, at 19:04, Purushottam Sinha <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Congratulations, Ramin 🙌 > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 10:29 PM Sangkyoon Nam <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Congratulations, Ramin! >> >> Best, >> Sangkyoon >> >> 2026년 10월 22일 (목) 오전 1:51, David Anderson <[email protected]>님이 작성: >> >>> Congrats, Ramin! Richly deserved. >>> >>> David >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 3:05 AM Timo Walther <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> On behalf of the PMC, I’m happy to let you know that Ramin Gharib has >>>> accepted the invitation to become a Flink Committer. >>>> >>>> Ramin has been a dedicated contributor to the Flink ecosystem over the >>>> past two years. Based on the project statistics, Ramin has authored 89 >>>> PRs, commented on 279 PRs, and worked on 6 FLIPs spanning key areas of >>>> Flink SQL: >>>> >>>> Materialized Tables (FLIP-546, FLIP-551, FLIP-557, FLIP-578): He has >>>> been a driving force behind the evolution of Materialized Tables. He >>>> introduced a single CREATE OR ALTER MATERIALIZED TABLE statement that >>>> creates a table or evolves an existing one, made the FRESHNESS clause >>>> optional, gave users granular control over data reprocessing when a >>>> table’s query changes, and proposed in-place conversion of regular >>>> tables to Materialized Tables. >>>> >>>> VARIANT type hardening (FLIP-604): He added many improvements to make >>>> VARIANT production ready: completed the primitive type coverage for >>>> VARIANT by adding UUID and TIMESTAMP(3) types, fixing cast rules, >> adding >>>> built-in functions. Overall many type system related improvements to >> the >>>> semantics of Flink SQL. >>>> >>>> He also contributed to the new CHANGELOG PTFs and implemented the >>>> OBJECT_OF and OBJECT_UPDATE built-in functions. >>>> >>>> Beyond his code contributions, Ramin represented Flink at Community >> Over >>>> Code 2026 together with Sergey Nuyanzin, about “Enterprise-Grade Data >>>> Pipelines: The Evolution of Flink Materialized Tables”. >>>> >>>> Please join me in congratulating Ramin for becoming an Apache Flink >>>> committer! >>>> >>>> Best, Timo (on behalf of the Flink PMC) >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *남상균 | Sangkyoon Nam* >> Staff Engineer, AI-Native Engineering | Building systems that connect >> products to people >> [email protected] >> > > > -- > Best Regards, > Purushottam Sinha > शुभकामनाएं > पुरूषोत्तम सिन्हा
