Contributors
![]() Jeff CarpenterDeveloper Advocate Manager |
About JeffJeff Carpenter leads the Developer Advocate team at DataStax, leveraging 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 |
![]() David GilardiDeveloper Advocate |
About DavidDavid Gilardi is a Developer Advocate 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 |
![]() Patrick McFadin |
About PatrickPatrick 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 |
![]() Amanda MoranDeveloper Advocate |
About AmandaAmanda is a Developer Advocate for DataStax. Her passion is bridging the gap between customers and engineering! Amanda graduated from Santa Clara University in 2012 with a Master’s in Computer Science, she also has a Bachelor's of Science In Biology from the University of Washington. She is based in the Bay Area and has worked for HP, Lockheed Martin, Teradata, and an Apache Trafodion startup Esgyn. Amanda is an Apache Committer and member of the PMC for Apache Trafodion. She has worked on customer poc’s, executive demos, AWS deployments, python coding, data science workshops, conferences, linux/hadoop administration, and scripting -- a little bit of everything! In her spare time, she loves running, hanging out with her dog, and finding reasons to go to Disneyland. Latest Content |
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![]() Adron HallDeveloper Advocate |
About AdronI’m a jovial, proactive, test & code, code & test, get things done well, software architect, engineer, code monkey, coder, and distributed systems advocate. Some of the things I’ve enjoyed doing over the years.
Besides all that technology stuff, I dig some good coffee, great beer, wine, food and a good music show. I cycle, almost everywhere these days, don’t own a car (but I’m a car snob of the serious racing sort auto-x, tuners, drift, rally, etc), I verge on the “transit nerd” and “rail nut” category along with “plane spotter” and “exotic car driver”. I also play guitar – primarily thrashing (metal), love to prog with some Jazz, croon along with some blues, and delve into a range of musical nuances. …and I’m sure that misses a few things, but I think it gives a good overview of where you’d usually find my mind and I. Latest Content |
![]() Cedrick LunvenDeveloper Advocates |
About CedrickCedrick is an happy developer advocate 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 |
![]() Russell Spitzer |
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![]() Jonathan LacefieldDirector of Customer Experience and Graph Solutions |
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![]() Kathryn Erickson |
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