Meet The Contributors

Contributors

Jeff Carpenter Technical Evangelist LinkedIn Twitter	About Jeff Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax, where he leverages his background in system architecture, microservices and Apache Cassandra to help empower developers and operations engineers build distributed systems that are scalable, reliable, and secure. Jeff has worked on projects ranging from a complex battle planning system in an austere network environment, to a cloud-based hotel reservation system and is the author of Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition. Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 51: Graph Tips and Tricks with Ted Wilmes - Expero Distributed Data Show Episode 49: Bulk Loading with Brian Hess Distributed Data Show Episode 46: DSE 6 Analytics with Brian Hess Distributed Data Show Episode 45: Search in DSE 6 with Nick Panahi Distributed Data Show Episode 44: Thread Per Core with Jake Luciani View More
David Gilardi Technical Evangelist LinkedIn Twitter	About David David Gilardi is a Technical Evangelist at DataStax who is a total nerd for distributed databases with a particular interest in distributed graph. He has over 20 years of relevant experience in programming, database administration, cloud, server/network monitoring, and analytics. Before his time at Datastax he was Senior Development Manager at Hobsons, an education services company, responsible for a flagship SaaS CRM product deployed on hybrid cloud using a combination of relational and NoSQL database technologies. Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 51: Graph Tips and Tricks with Ted Wilmes - Expero Distributed Data Show Episode 50: Think Like a Support Engineer with Sequoyha Pelletier Distributed Data Show Episode 48: DataStax Drivers with Chris Splinter Distributed Data Show Episode 42: Updating KillrVideo for DSE Search and Docker Distributed Data Show Episode 41: Graph-based Genealogy with Dave Bechberger View More
Patrick McFadin	About Patrick Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of DataStax products successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years. Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 34: Spark 2.3 with Holden Karau Distributed Data Show Episode 33: Big Data and Blockchain Apache Cassandra™ community gathering at Data Day Texas Distributed Data Show Episode 27: 2017 in Review Distributed Data Show Episode 26: Partitioning Techniques with DuyHai Doan and Patrick McFadin View More
Luke Tillman	Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 31: Microservices and Data - Best Practices Distributed Data Show Episode 28: 2018 Predictions Distributed Data Show Episode 24: Pre-Aggregation in an Eventually Consistent World with DuyHai Doan Distributed Data Show Episode 19: Data Modeling Horror Stories Distributed Data Show Episode 18: Securing Distributed Databases with Wei Deng View More
Russell Spitzer	Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 11: Catching up on Apache Spark with Russ Spitzer How the Spark Cassandra Connector Reads Data How the Spark Cassandra Connector Writes Data How Spark Master High Availability Works in DataStax Enterprise How Spark Works in DataStax Enterprise View More
Sebastian Estevez	Latest Content Using the Cassandra Data Modeler to Stress and Size C*/DSE Instances DSE Gremlin Queries: Good, Better, Best Distributed Data Show Episode 6: Optimizing Gremlin Traversals with Sebastian Estevez View More
Brian Hess Product Director - Architecture and Analytics	Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 49: Bulk Loading with Brian Hess Distributed Data Show Episode 46: DSE 6 Analytics with Brian Hess BYOH Cloudera and Hortonworks View More
Stephen Mallette	Latest Content Gremlin DSLs in .NET with DSE Graph Distributed Data Show Episode 20: Domain Specific Languages for Graph in Java with Stephen Mallette Gremlin DSLs in Python with DSE Graph View More
Kathryn Erickson	Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 30: Orchestration with Kathryn Erickson Distributed Data Show Episode 22: Docker with Kathryn Erickson Docker Tutorial View More
Cedrick Lunven Technical Evangelist LinkedIn Twitter	About Cedrick Cedrick is an happy technical evangelist at DataStax, where he is able to share his passions about developments and distributed architectures. With several positions as developer, technical architect or presale and strong background on integration middlewares he had multiple opportunities to empower his customers to build cutting-edge distributed applications. In 2013 He embraced the open source community by creating a Feature Toggle Framework named ff4j which he still actively maintains. Always motivated to learn new stuff, don't hesitate to drop a message Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 47: NodeSync with Sylvain Lebresne Distributed Data Show Episode 42: Updating KillrVideo for DSE Search and Docker Distributed Data Show Episode 40: Feature flags with Cedrick Lunven View More