Founder of Blue Badge Insights -- strategy and advisory for data analytics players.
Big Data guy for @TheNewStack & @VentureBeat, Microsoft tech influencer.
Industry Analyst, Data Science Advisor, Keynote Speaker, #BBBT Member, Mentor @schoolofdata, Advisory Board @Dataurora, & Named Global #BigData Influencer.
Consultant & analyst specializing in scalable data integration architectures, analytics, cloud, BI tools & Lean. Managing partner at Datasource Consulting.
Co-founder of Hortonworks and senior architect. I've been making Hadoop scale up since the beginning. I've worked on HDFS, MapReduce, Security, & Hive.