Aljoscha Krettek is the PMC chair of Apache Flink and Apache Beam, and co-founder of data Artisans. Apache Flink is an open-source platform for distributed stream and batch data processing. It allows for stateful computations over data streams in real-time and historically. Flink supports batch and stream processing using APIs like DataSet and DataStream. Data Artisans originated Flink and provides an application platform powered by Flink and Kubernetes for building stateful stream processing applications.