Many Hats at Cloudera RIT Computer Science House
February 2014
Alex Moundalexis
[email protected] @technmsg
Cloudera • founded 2008 – 3 engineers from Google, Yahoo, Facebook – 1 former Oracle execuMve
• based in Palo Alto • privately held • 450+ employees
What Does Cloudera Do? • product – distribuMon of Hadoop components, Apache licensed – enterprise tooling
• support • training • services (aka consulMng) • community
Working LocaMons Office @ Palo Alto Remote
Working LocaMons Friend’s Kitchen Key West
Obligatory Customer Slide • BlackBerry • Box • Expedia • Experian • eBay • Navteq • NetApp
• Rackspace • Samsung • Skybox Imaging • Trend Micro • U.S. Army
• Others...
How Did I Get Here? • Commodore 64 – BASIC
• tried to run Doom on 386 w/ 4 MB memory – learned troubleshooMng
• ran a BBS – modding C code, badly
How Did I Get Here? • RIT ’03 • NYU-‐Poly ’12 • 10 years defense contractor – hired brain muscle, not brawn – system administraMon, networking, development
• Luck… and personal networking
My Boss
Many Hats
I get involved in everything…
Many Hats
I get involved in everything… …and it’s okay.
consultant
consultant
consultant
varying working condiMons
environmental extremes open locked down
consultant for federal
firefighter
contributor
reviewer
chauffer
food picker-‐upper
photographer
coworking host
booth beard
swag hander-‐outer
support liaison
conference adendee
speaker
jet-‐seder
rental car jockey
hotel resident
west coast sunset verifier
foodie
t-‐shirt model
t-‐shirt hoarder
author & copy editor
CC BY-‐SA 2.0 Michael Mandiberg: hdp://flic.kr/p/6Kdfo6/
interviewer
Many Hats
I get involved in everything… …almost.
Same but Different
Same but Different • UIUC ’04 • 10 years DoD Civilian • Share hire-‐on date with Cloudera
Many Hats
I also got involved in everything…
Commider
Communicator
Scheduler
Tester
Public domain: hdp://bit.ly/1fGFIE3
Deadline Enthusiast
PMC
QuesMons?
Yes, we’re hiring.
Openings at Cloudera! Summer Interns Everything
hCp://bit.ly/MoPXkY hCp://bit.ly/OuciQ6
Special Thanks
@wxs @mfisher
Thanks!
Alex Moundalexis
[email protected] @technmsg Unless otherwise noted, content Copyright © 2010-‐2013 Alex Moundalexis. All rights reserved.
Sean Busbey
[email protected] @busbeytheelder
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