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 43: Introducing DSE 6 with Robin Schumacher Distributed Data Show Episode 42: Updating KillrVideo for DSE Search and Docker Distributed Data Show Episode 41: Graph-based Genealogy with Dave Bechberger Getting Started with DataStax Docker Images Distributed Data Show Episode 37: Cassandra at Instagram with Dikang Gu 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 42: Updating KillrVideo for DSE Search and Docker Distributed Data Show Episode 41: Graph-based Genealogy with Dave Bechberger Distributed Data Show Episode 40: Feature flags with Cedrick Lunven Distributed Data Show Episode 39: Cassandra on Kubernetes at Target with Aaron Ploetz Distributed Data Show Episode 38: Spark 3.0 and Beyond with Holden Karau 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
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
Sebastian Estevez	Latest Content DSE Gremlin Queries: Good, Better, Best Distributed Data Show Episode 6: Optimizing Gremlin Traversals with Sebastian Estevez View More
Denise Gosnell Senior Graph Consultant LinkedIn Twitter	About Denise In August 2017, Dr. Denise Gosnell transitioned into a Senior Graph Consultant position with DataStax where she aspires to build upon her experiences as a data scientist and graph architect to further their established line of graph solutions. Prior to her role with DataStax, she built software solutions for and spoke at over a dozen conferences on permissioned blockchains, machine learning applications of graph analytics, and data science within the healthcare industry. Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 36: Graph Invariants Galore with Denise Gosnell Distributed Data Show Episode 16: Everything is Not a Graph Problem with Denise Gosnell View More
Wei Deng	Latest Content Distributed Data Show Episode 18: Securing Distributed Databases with Wei Deng DataStax Enterprise 4.6 LDAP Support View More