Bio

I have a passion for distributed systems. From working as a system administrator on extremely latency sensitive HD video delivery network to directing an engineering team for a distributed user experience platform, my work has spanned numerous industries in a variety of roles. Clean architecture and high performance are key goals of mine. Currently my work has been focused on the distributed NoSQL database Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise platform. I was one of the first DataStax Certified Apache Cassandra Architects. In 2015 I was named an Apache Cassandra MVP for my involvement with the amazing C* community. Systems like Cassandra are truly fascinating. Developing applications to scale out across numerous machines and geographically distributed data centers presents interesting technical challenges. When solved correctly, users have excellent experiences and applications are fault tolerant with excellent performance. My work has reached millions of people globally and I am excited to see what projects the future brings.