EMEA Diaries: Starburst Founding and Growth in Poland

Starburst, a company built on the open-source Trino project, offers a distributed query engine that supports data lakes, object storage, and data federation, enabling SQL queries across various data sources. Originally stemming from the Hadapt startup, which was acquired by Teradata, Starburst was founded by a team in Warsaw, Poland, who had previously worked on the development of Presto, the precursor to Trino. The company has grown significantly, establishing itself in Poland and securing its first major customer, Zalando, in the EMEA region by addressing their data governance and scalability needs without locking them into specific storage solutions. Starburst's rapid growth and dynamic work environment continue to attract talent as they expand their engineering team and product offerings, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and innovation in the fast-evolving data space.