Martin Traverso is the cofounder of the Trino Software Foundation and CTO at Starburst Data. Prior to Starburst, Martin worked as a software engineer at Facebook where he saw the need for fast interactive SQL analytics. Martin and three other engineers worked to create what became Trino. Martin led the Trino development team and in the spring of 2013 Trino was rolled out into production, later made opensource in the fall of 2013. Since then, Trino has gained wide adoption both internal and external to Facebook.Prior to Facebook, Martin was an architect at Proofpoint and Ning, where he led development and architecture design of numerous complex enterprise and social network applications.
