Bio

Passionate about the intersection of big data & machine learning. Extensive working experience in designing and building big data applications and scalable web-based applications. Have 3 plus years of technical leadership experience in managing multiple data infrastructure related projects. Passion for architecting scalable and highly available big data applications and systems. Specialties: Big data, web application framework, cloud computing, RESTful web services and cryptography. Part-time Passion: * Instructor at UCSC Extension: Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Spring Framework, Design Patterns and Java Comprehensive. Speaking Engagements: * QCon NY 2019 - track host for ML for Developers track * QCon (SF, Shanghai, London, AI) - Building Recommender Systems w/ Apache Spark 2.x - Recommender System: Powering LinkedIn Growth & Engagement - Apache Spark 2.x Workshop * Seattle Data Day - Extreme Streaming Processing at Uber * 2015 - ArchSummit - Big Data Story : from an engineer's perspective * 2013 - Lucene/Solr Revolution - How Lucene Powers the LinkedIn Segmentation and Targeting Platform * 2013 - Hadoop Summit - LinkedIn Segmentation & Targeting Platform: A Big Data Application * 2010 - JavaOne - REST with Spring Framework and JAX-RS