Bio

More than 20 years of experience including being CPO of Big Data startup that got acquired by Twitter. Entrepreneurial, energetic executive and technologist with strong leadership skills. Extensive background in technology, engineering, product management and business development. Intimately familiar with trends and drivers in Big Data, Cloud Applications, Data Center and Network technologies. Strong technical background in Big Data, Hadoop, Cassandra, Parallel Database Systems, Network Routing and Switching, AWS. Very deep understanding including Map/Reduce, Real Time Streaming, Interactive Querying, Distributed Query Execution, Query Scheduling and Route Forwarding Algorithms. Author of the best selling book ''Network Routing - Algorithms, Protocols and Architectures'', several publications and ten patents in large scale data processing. If you are interested in learning more about Apache Storm, check out my online course at Udacity https://www.udacity.com/course/ud381 I initiated and oversaw the development of Heron, the next generation of streaming system @Twitter. It was very well received due to its speed and consumption of less resources. Heron was positively received in the press Venturebeat - http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/twitter-details-heron-a-real-time-stream-processing-system-that-outperforms-storm/ The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/06/02/twitter-unveils-heron-a-real-time-analytics-system-that-can-withstand-social-traffic-spikes/ Tech Portal - http://thetechportal.in/2015/06/03/twitter-shifts-base-from-storm-to-a-newer-more-robust-real-time-analytics-platform-heron/ Street Insider - http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Twitter+(TWTR)+Announces+New+Real-Time+Analytics+Platform%3A+Heron/10617943.html Infoq - http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/06/twitter-storm-heron My talk at Facebook @scale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUaFOuGgmco