Ricky Saltzer is the principal data engineer currently building the nuts and bolts for real-time data analytics at Fortis Game. He kicked off his career in 2014 at Cloudera, where he put his data engineering skills to the test and became an Apache NiFi committer. He then spent four years at Epic Games during the Fortnite craze, where he whipped up real-time data services that made gigabyte-throughput event streams accessible to everyone, no matter their skill level.