Igal Shilman is Co-Founder at Restate, a Berlin-based durable workflow infrastructure company helping developers build resilient distributed applications and AI agent systems.

Igal holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and built deep expertise in distributed systems through engineering roles at Wix and SoundCloud.

Igal is an Apache Flink committer and was a key engineering lead at Ververica, where he specialized in Flink Stateful Functions, contributing to one of the most foundational open-source stream-processing frameworks in the world.

Prior to Restate, Igal spent nearly five years as Engineering Lead at Ververica, the company formed after Alibaba's 2019 acquisition of Data Artisans, where he and his co-founders first collaborated.

Restate has raised $27M in total funding, including a $20M Series A led by Singular, and serves hundreds of companies including Fortune 500 firms and clients such as Replit.