CEO, The Axis Initiative
Helena is using AI and complex adaptive systems to study and help endangered species under climate change, biodiversity loss, human-wildlife conflict and illegal wildlife trade. Bridging academia and industry, she is a member of the Environmental Intelligence team of the Interagency...
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Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning, AWS
Software Engineer, Alluxio
Calvin Jia is the top contributor of the Alluxio project. He has been involved as a core maintainer and release manager since the early days when the project was known as Tachyon. Calvin has a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Co-Founder and Director of Engineering, Indix
Rajesh leads the data platform team at Indix thats building the world's largest source of structured product information. Over the last 5 years, his team has built several data pipelines using Akka, Scalding, Kafka and more recently Akka-Streams and Spark. He has also blogged and...
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Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, MemSQL
Nikita Shamgunov co-founded MemSQL and has served as CTO since inception. Prior to co-founding the company, Nikita worked on core infrastructure systems at Facebook. He served as a senior database engineer at Microsoft SQL Server for more than half a decade. Nikita holds a bachelor’s...
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Chief Architect, Databricks
Reynold Xin is a co-founder and Chief Architect at Databricks, where he oversees the company's Spark development. He was the release manager for Spark's 2.0 release, and the driver behind most of the major recent changes in Spark, e.g. DataFrame API, Project Tungsten. Prior to Databricks...
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