10 years at Apache | ZooKeeper Meetup with Patrick Hunt

We are jointly organizing this event together with the Cloudera Tech Meetup (http://bit.ly/2k9VkrI)

Let's celebrate ZooKeeper's 10th anniversary with Patrick Hunt!
See this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1

Schedule:
18:00 Doors Open, Sandwiches & Refreshments
18:30 Opening notes and announcements
18:40 Andor Molnar: What it feels like working on an Open Source project
19:00 Q&A
19:10 Patrick Hunt: Apache ZooKeeper - a short history
19:30 Q&A
19:45 Open Discussion, Beers, Networking

Talks:

Patrick Hunt: Apache ZooKeeper - a short history

Ten years at Apache - a short history of the Apache ZooKeeper project including insights on how to use it, when to use it, when not to use it, and experiences from running in production.

Bio:
Patrick Hunt is a committer and PMC member on the Apache ZooKeeper project. He joined Cloudera more than eight years ago and is currently the tech lead of data science and data engineering.
Previous to Cloudera he spent five years at Yahoo! where he specialized in large-scale distributed systems architecture.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Patrick worked on enterprise software, founded a startup, designed high performance network software, and dabbled a bit with rocket science (NASA).
He has a bachelors degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Andor Molnar: What it feels like working on an Open Source project

Experiences of a Hungarian software engineer moved to the Open Source world recently from the traditional closed-source proprietary product development.
The ladder of Apache: committer, PMC members, etc.
Challenges in prioritization.
Does scrum work with open source?
Importance of socialization: how networking helps you to be successful

Bio:
Andor Molnar is the lead Apache ZooKeeper contributor at Cloudera in Budapest.
Before Cloudera he worked on Xively by LogMeIn which was a market leading IoT platform and was recently acquired by Google.
Previously he worked on Cubby, LogMeIn’s object store solution based on Apache Cassandra and before that he worked on trading platforms at Morgan Stanley.
He has 5 years solid experience with Big Data and Cloud technologies, recently moved to the Hadoop world.

Please note that this is an English speaking event.