Neelesh Salian

Neelesh Salian

Neelesh Salian builds data platforms. He has led lakehouse and distributed systems work at Datavant, Stitch Fix, dbt Labs, Salesforce, and Cloudera, with a focus on Spark, streaming, and Apache Iceberg in production. He created Floe to solve a problem he kept encountering: orchestrating Iceberg table maintenance at scale.

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Floe: Policy-Based Table Maintenance for Apache Iceberg

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Iceberg maintenance procedures work. Orchestrating them across hundreds of tables is the problem. Floe is an open-source system that treats maintenance as policy: glob patterns, schedules, and health-driven triggers that gate operations on real table metrics. Supports 7 catalogs, executes via Spark or Trino.