Getting Started with the Graph Query Language (GQL)

Ricky Sun is a serial entrepreneur and an expert in high-performance storage and computing systems. He is also the author of several technology books. Ricky began his career in Silicon Valley, working with his professor a year before graduating from Santa Clara University. Over the past 20+ years, he has experienced three mergers and acquisitions. Ultipa is his fourth venture. Ricky previously served as CTO of EMC Asia R&D Center, managing director of EMC Labs China, and chief architect of Splashtop, a pre-IPO unicorn startup. He was also the CEO of Allhistory, a knowledge graph-powered causality search engine, now part of Human, a publicly traded online education services company. Ricky is the author of the The Essential Criteria of Graph Databases book.

Jason Zhang holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from SUPINFO, Paris, and has over 10 years of IT experience. He has worked for startups and is currently the Director of Engineering at Ultipa. In his role, Jason has contributed to the design and implementation of Ultipa’s property graph database, recognized as one of the most performant and innovative in the market. He leads the implementation of Ultipa Graph and adds support for the GQL standard.

Yuri Simione holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy. He has nearly 30 years of IT experience. He has worked with large enterprises like Xerox and EMC (now Dell EMC), specialising in managing unstructured information projects with products like Opentext Documentum and Adobe Experience Management. In 2014, Yuri recognized the potential of graph databases for handling unstructured data and shifted his focus to this technology and the semantic knowledge graphs market. He currently serves as VP of Partnerships and Alliances at Ultipa, a leading graph database and graph analytics vendor.