Bio

►Things I dig and you should dig too: ● Test Driven Development (TDD) ● Pair Programming ● Big Data and Distributed Systems ● Java (Extensive experience with Spring Framework) ● Data Science ● Machine Learning ● Mathematics ● Python (Scripting yay, for OOP I'd rather Java) ● Linux (The world has never been the same) ● Travelling ►Technologies I dig: ● Blockchain / Secure Distributed Ledgers / Consensus Algorithms ● Spring ● Spark + MLlib ● Apache Geode (aka Gemfire, aka PCC) ● Kubernetes ● VMWare Tanzu ● IBM Watson ● Hadoop (Intentional ambiguity here) ● Apache Drill (One day it will get the attention it deserves!) ● Apache Beam ● Linux (CentOS / Redhat primarily) ● miniSAT (And pretty much all SAT solvers) ►Speaking Engagements: Datacon LA 2021 (Los Angeles CA (Virtual) - September 2021) ● Building Production Data Pipelines by using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming Data Intensive Application Meetup (Irvine CA - February 2020) ● Massive Data Processing at Scale SpringOne Platform (Austin TX - October 2019) ● High Speed Data Processing with Apache Geode and Spring Cloud Stream SpringOne Platform (Washington DC - October 2018) ● Continuous Data Governance and Spring Cloud Data Flow SpringOne Platform (Las Vegas NV - August 2016) ● Lessons Learned - Migrating from Spring XD to Spring Cloud Data Flow Apache Geode Summit (Palo Alto CA - March 2016) ● Predicting and Preventing Vehicle Failures Using Streaming Telematics Analysis IBM Datapalooza (San Francisco CA - November 2015) ● Real Time Vehicle Telematics Pivotal Labs Meetup (San Francisco CA - November 2015) ● Predicting & Preventing Vehicle Failures Using Streaming Telematics Analysis