Alexander Gallego is the Founder and CEO of Redpanda Data, where he is focused on building the Agentic Data Plane. He is a systems engineer with a professional interest in areas such as low latency storage, distributed stream processing, databases, and networking. Gallego is also the maintainer of an open-source RPC protocol that utilizes TCP kernel bypass and zero-cost serialization.

Prior to his current role, Gallego founded and served as CTO of Concord Systems, Inc.