Co-founder and Architect, Hortonworks
Alan is a founder of Hortonworks and an original member of the engineering team that took Pig from a Yahoo! Labs research project to a successful Apache open source project. Alan has done extensive work in Hive, including adding ACID transactions. Alan has a BS in Mathematics from...
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Susan Malaika is Senior Technical Staff in IBM’s Open Technologies team focusing on data initiatives. Her background spans software development, data modeling, open data, creating and delivering workshops. Susan loves reading, writing and participating in meet-ups.
Director, Open Mainframe Project. Director of Program Management, Linux Foundation, Linux Foundation
John Mertic is the Director of Program Management for The Linux Foundation. Under his leadership, he has helped ASWF, ODPi, Open Mainframe Project, and R Consortium accelerate open source innovation and transform industries. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both...
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