Big Data Spain

O'ReillyLeader of the O'Reilly Learning team

Paco Nathan

An O'Reilly author, Paco is an expert in distributed systems, machine learning, predictive modeling, and cloud computing. He received his BS Math Sciences and MS Computer Science degrees from Stanford, and has 25+ years experience in the tech industry ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups since receiving his BS Math Sci and MS Comp Sci degrees from Stanford University.

FacebookData Science Leader

JASON SUNDRAM

I’m a senior data scientist at eBay/PayPal. The work I do looks closely at data generated by mobile users. I’ve worked on the WHERE PlaceGraph, a tool that reveals the connections between places based on searches and checkins.
In general, I do data visualization with big data, using Python and R for analysis, and Processing and javascript/canvas for display/interaction. I’m also an accomplished violinist.

SAP HANASAP head of Data Management

FRANZ FAERBER

Franz Faerber is Senior Vice President of SAP HANA – Technology and Innovation Platform. In this role he is responsible for SAP's database development. His team develops the SAP HANA platform (database and development platform components). SAP HANA platform integrates database and development platform components based on innovative technology, optimized for SAP solutions while fully leveraging all talents and IP.

Neo TechnologyChief Scientist

JIM WEBBER

Co­Author of the book "Graph Databases", Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j. Jim is intimate with things that can't be practically done without a graph database.

MesosphereDistributed Systems Engineer

Jörg Schad

Jörg Schad was a Ph.D. student at the Saarland University's Computer Science Department. He works on challenges in distributed computing, especially the MapReduce approach and Cloud Computing. Besides he was a member of the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science. Currently Jörg works as Distributed Systems Engineer at Mesosphere.

Data ArtisansApache Flink Committer and CEO

Kostas Tzoumas

Kostas Tzoumas is a committer at Apache Flink and co-founder of data Artisans (data-artisans.com), a Berlin-based company that is developing and contributing to Apache Flink. Before founding data Artisans, Kostas was a postdoctoral researcher at TU Berlin, received a PhD in Computer Science from Aalborg University and has been with the University of Maryland and Microsoft Research in Redmond in the course of several internships.

CERNHead of the Control and Monitoring Platform

Matthias Braeger

Matthias Braeger is Software Engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He is responsible for the Technical Infrastructure Monitoring (TIM) system which is a 24/7 service used by many different user groups to supervise and control a variety of infrastructure spread across the CERN site. He also heads the CERN Control and Monitoring .

ZalandoData Science Expert

Roland Vollgraf

Roland obtained his PhD at the Technische Universität Berlin. He worked as Head of Research at GA Financial Solutions GmbH, and currently he is Data Science Expert at Zalando. Roland is interested on Warehouse Logistics and Machine Learning.