Speaker Series: Advanced Spark with Chris Fregly

Come check out our first speaker Chris Fregly at Spark SLC!

Title: Real-time Aggregations, Approximations, Similarities, and Recommendations at Scale using Spark Streaming, ML, GraphX, Kafka, Cassandra, Docker, CoreNLP, Word2Vec, LDA, and Twitter Algebird

Chris Fregly is a Principal Data Solutions Engineer for the newly-formed IBM Spark Technology Center, an Apache Spark Contributor, and a Netflix Open Source Committer. Chris is also the founder of the global Advanced Apache Spark Meetup and author of the upcoming book, Advanced Spark @ advancedspark.com. Previously, Chris was a Data Solutions Engineer at Databricks and a Streaming Data Engineer at Netflix. When Chris isn’t contributing to Spark and other open source projects, he’s creating book chapters, slides, and demos to share knowledge with his peers at meetups and conferences throughout the world.