Alexander Stigsen
Alexander Stigsen is the Chief Product Officer at Exasol, where he leads product strategy and innovation for one of the world’s fastest analytics databases. With a deep-rooted background in engineering and a career spanning more than two decades, Alexander has been at the forefront of database technology and product development.
He is best known as the founder and former CEO of Realm, a groundbreaking mobile database platform that quickly became one of the most widely adopted solutions for mobile app developers worldwide. Under his leadership, Realm was used in applications on over a billion devices and was ultimately acquired by MongoDB, further cementing his influence in the data infrastructure space.
Alexander brings a unique perspective that bridges the worlds of engineering, product leadership, and entrepreneurship. At conferences, he shares insights on building scalable data systems, innovating in developer tools, and navigating the startup-to-acquisition journey—all with a focus on delivering products that developers love.
Session
What if your Python models could run inside your database—at scale, with parallel execution, and zero data movement? Meet Exasol: a high-performance Analytics Engine with native Python support and a massively parallel processing (MPP) engine. In this session, you’ll learn how to run Python directly where your data lives using user-defined functions (UDFs) and customizable script language containers. Whether you're doing forecasting, categorization, or calling APIs in real time, Exasol enables fast, scalable Python execution—perfect for demanding data science workflows. We’ll share real-world use cases, including large-scale model inference across thousands of sensors. If you're tired of bottlenecks and batch jobs, this is your shortcut to blazing-fast, in-database Python.