Equinix and Stormpath with Cassandra

For this meetup we are excited to be joined by two great speakers, Praveen Kumar, E Sr. Manager – Product Engineering at Equinix, and Les Hazelwood CTO and Co-Founder of Stormpath.

Schedule:

6:30 - Food & Networking

7:00 - Equinix Big Data Platform and how Cassandra sits in the center of it (Praveen Kumar)

7:45 - Infinite Session Clustering with Cassandra (Les Hazelwood)

8:30 - Q&A

About Praveen Kumar:

Praveen developed Equinix's Big Data strategy and led architecture & implementation of Equinix Big Data Platform built using Cassandra and other technologies. Praveen has over 15 years of experience in building high quality distributed software systems requiring high performance, scalability and short response time.

About Les Hazelwood:

Prior to forming Stormpath, Les held senior architectural positions at Bloomberg and Delta Airlines and he was former CTO of a software engineering firm supporting educational and government agencies. Les has been actively involved in Open Source for more than 10 years, committing or contributing to projects like the Spring Framework, JBoss, and Apache Shiro. Les has a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and practices Kendo and studies Japanese when he's not coding.