Eric Evans (Acunu) Eric is a developer with the Debian Project and a member of the Apache Cassandra PMC. He has more than a decade of experience in large-scale distributed systems, having held both operations and engineering roles. An early employee of Rackspace, he implemented a global DNS infrastructure utilizing IP anycast (possibly the first), and a novel data-center-wide IDS for which a patent was awarded. |  |
Sylvain Lebresne (DataStax) Sylvain is a committer and PMC member on the open-source Apache Cassandra distributed database working at Datastax. He used to work at Yakaz, a real-time classified ads web service, where he developed the storage infrastructure built on Cassandra. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Paris 7. |  |
Gary Dusbabek (Rackspace) An Apache Cassandra committer and PMC member, Gary Dusbabek is a life-long programmer specializing in distributed systems. His past experience includes working with large-scale text and image indexes in the newspaper industry and high-volume advertisement booking software. He currently works on the Cloud Monitoring team at Rackspace. |  |
Denis Sheahan (Netflix)
Denis is a Senior Performance Engineer at Netflix - one of the heaviest Cassandra users in the world. He works in the Cassandra Performance team, helping ensure Netflix's clusters are always performing. Prior to Netflix, Denis worked as a distinguished engineer at Oracle and Sun Microsystems. |  |
Dave Gardner (Hailo)
Dave is a keen Cassandra user and organiser of the London Cassandra user group since late 2010. Having previously introduced Cassandra at VisualDNA, he is now working for Hailo, the black cab app, building the APIs that power the various mobile applications. Dave has an interest in trying to make applications scalable and resilient. |  |
Andrew Byde (Acunu)
Andrew joined Acunu from HP Labs, where he spent 10 years doing research into information extraction, market-based computing and biologically-inspired complex systems. During that time he spent 2 years as a Royal Society Industry Fellow at the University of Southampton. Andrew obtained a PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University and an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University. He has 24 publications and over 20 patents to his name.
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Malcolm Box (Tellybug)
Malcolm is CTO at Tellybug (previously Live Talkback) and is responsible for the infrastructure behind Tellybug scale to support TV audiences for some of the most popular shows in the world. Before Tellybug, Malcolm wrangled code, customers and the ecosystem at Nokia and Symbian, creating the world's first smartphones and shipping to hundreds of millions of consumers.
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Richard Lowe (Arkivum)
Richard is Principal Engineer and co-founder at Arkivum, where they are using Cassandra to help keep customers' data safe, secure and simple to access - forever. Prior to Arkivum, Richard worked on several R&D projects as a Research Engineer at the University of Southampton, and has always had an interest in using leading edge technologies to create innovative solutions to real-world problems.
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Jeremy Hanna (Dachis Group)
Jeremy Hanna is a software developer at The Dachis Group working on their social business intelligence products, including the social business index. As a foundation for these products, he helped bootstrap the company on Cassandra alongside Hadoop to perform analytics over company focused social data. Jeremy has been involved as a Cassandra contributor, more especially with the Hadoop integration, since the Spring of 2010. Prior to the Dachis Group, Jeremy worked at Rackspace building shared services around Hadoop and Cassandra.
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Noa Resare (Spotify)
Noa Resare is a Service Reliability Engineer at Spotify. He is
responsible for the operational aspects of using Cassandra focusing on maintaining high availability and scalability of the production environment backing the Spotify streaming music service. Areas of interest includes deployment automation, monitoring and backup strategies.
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Matt Aslett (451 Research)
Matt Aslett is a Research Manager for data management and analytics within 451 Research's Information Management practice. Matt's primary area of focus is on relational and non-relational databases, data warehousing, data caching, and Hadoop. Prior to joining 451 Research, Matt was Deputy Editor of monthly magazine Computer Business Review and ComputerWire's daily news service. | 
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Tom Wilkie (Acunu)
Tom leads the engineering team at Acunu. He previous worked in a range of engineering roles at both Citrix and XenSource managing key customer projects with major enterprises. As one of the first employees at XenSource he played a key part in developing the XenServer management stack. He holds an MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University where he was also a research assistant.
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Mat Clayton (Mixcloud)
Mat is the co-founder of Mixcloud and heads up the technical development of the site. Mat is a specialist in social media and web 2.0 development projects. He has developed a range of successful Facebook applications, including Sponsor Me, and the Sony commissioned Become Rambo, which was awarded best Viral Application by the Facebook Developer Garage London, in association with Sun Microsystems. | 
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