Bio

Technical Director/Engineer with over 20 years experience in recruiting and building high performing engineering teams in big data distributed application environments. Ability to communicate conceptual ideas clearly. Designed several large scale, distributed architectures for large enterprise data processing applications including remote deployed aircraft entertainment software, and massive event ingestion systems. Contributed patches to the Hadoop open source codebase. Designed and commissioned the golang kafka client project to work in an at-least-once processing with fault tolerance https://github.com/stealthly/go_kafka_client Author of Open Source Projects: GoTel - written in Golang https://github.com/CrowdStrike/gotel Goose - (10th most popular Scala project on GitHub in 2011) - Article Extractor written in Scala/Java and open sourced while at Gravity.com. It's able to extract complete articles and make image recommendations from a url based on heuristics of the source files. Similar to Flipboard https://github.com/jiminoc/goose Cassandra-tools in Python https://github.com/CrowdStrike/cassandra-tools Recent events I've spoken at: QCon SF - ''Startup Culture: Innovating as you grow''​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD_A27lAUUI https://www.infoq.com/presentations/crowdstrike-culture OC Big Data meetup 2014 ''Introduction to Apache Kafka''​ AWS re:Invent 2014 Conference Leveraging the Cloud with a Blue/Green Architecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abK2Q_aecxY OC Big Data meetup 2015 - Application Telemetry at Scale with Graphite http://www.slideshare.net/jimplush/scaling-graphite-for-application-metrics Cassandra Summit 2015 1 Million Writes Per Second on 60 nodes with EBS and Cassandra Amazon re:Invent Conference 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLhr1KZpdzukdsblOEVXrCYtvUsDakzYJI&v=1R-mgOcOSd4&app=desktop current favorite tech: GoLang, Scala, Python, PHP, Java, Apache Pig, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Cascading, MySQL, Apache Hadoop, Redis