Spark Committer Night

A group of Spark committers from Databricks will be in town for Strata conference, and we are throwing a meetup event. We will have a panel discussion on the roadmap and ongoing efforts of Spark Core, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and MLib followed by Q&A for the audience to ask any questions about Spark.

The panel will include the following Spark developers:

Michael Armbrust is the lead developer of the Spark SQL project at Databricks. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2013, and was advised by Michael Franklin, David Patterson and Armando Fox. His thesis focused on building systems that allow developers to rapidly build scalable interactive applications, and specifically defined the notion of scale independence. His interests broadly include distributed systems, large-scale structured storage and query optimization.

Joseph Bradley is a developer on the MLlib project at Databricks. He received his Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013, where he worked with Prof. Carlos Guestrin on large-scale graphical models and parallel sparse regression. He then did a postdoc at UC Berkeley, working on sparse DFTs and peer grading in MOOCs.

Tathagata Das is an Apache Spark Committer and a member of the PMC. He is the lead developer of behind Spark Streaming, and currently employed at Databricks. Earlier, he has spent in the AMPLab of UC Berkeley, research about datacenter frameworks and networks with professors Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica.

Reynold Xin is a committer on Apache Spark. He is also a co-founder of Databricks. Before Databricks, he was pursuing a PhD in the UC Berkeley AMPLab.

Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT, and the initial creator of Apache Spark. He is currently on industry leave to start Databricks, a company commercializing Spark, where he is CTO.

We will also have Paco Nathan, an O'Reilly author ("Enterprise Data Workflows", "Just Enough Math"), Director of Community Evangelism at Databricks, and an advisor at Amplify Partners. Paco has 30+ years in the tech industry, ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups.

Refreshments will be served at 6:30pm, and talks start at 7pm.

Location:

Bloomberg
731 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Please enter on Lexington Ave. between 58th and 59th street. At the desk please indicate you are here for the Spark meetup and you will be directed to security, where you will need to present your ID and have a photo badge printed.