Jon has 15 years experience in both development and operations. For 10 years he’s worked at various startups in southern California. For 2 years he had been the maintainer of cqlengine, the Python object mapper for Cassandra, now integrated into the native Cassandra driver. He’s now a Technical Evangelist at Datastax, continuing to focus on advancing Cassandra in the Python, operations and data science communities. Jon holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Vermont.