Greg, thanks for kicking off the roll call. Getting to know each other is super useful (and can be fun! ;-)). I'll go next:
I am Roman (your former mentor and current PMC member). I hang around a lot of ASF big data projects (as a committer and a PMC member), but lately I've been gravitating towards IoT as well (Apache Mynewt). I started my career at Sun microsystems back at a time when Linux wasn't even 1.x and I've been doing enterprise software ever since. I was lucky enough to get to work on the original Hadoop team at Yahoo! and fall in love with not one but two elephants (Hadoop and Postgres). Recently I've assumed a position of VP of Technology at ODPi and I'm still hoping to MHGA! My secret weapon is Apache Bigtop (which I co-founded) and I'm not afraid to use it! I'm here to keep an eye on you guys ;-) No, not really -- this community is pretty awesome and it really deserves the TLP status. Frankly, I'm here to be a fly-on-the wall observing all the amazing use cases that Geode is powering. I'm also here to be able to tell my grandkids that I was there when Geode took over the world ;-) Thanks, Roman. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Gregory Chase <gch...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Now that Apache Geode is no longer incubating, I thought it would be fun to > get to know some of the other people in the community. > > My name is Greg Chase and I run community development for Pivotal for big > data open source communities that Pivotal contributes to. > > Some of you may have seen my frequent emails about virtual events I help > organize for user and contributor education. > > Way back in the day, I was a user of the POET FastObjects object database, > so I have an affinity for the OO interface of Apache Geode. My first year > at Pivotal I ran product marketing for Pivotal GemFire - the code base that > led to the initial grant to create Apache Geode. > > These days I'm much more of a marketer than a coder, but I still understand > the kinds of projects that Apache Geode users are trying to build. > > Literally the most fun I've had to date with Geode was helping organize the > Apache Geode Summit where I met quite a few participants in this community. > > I know we'd all love to hear more about everyone else's projects, and how > you became an Apache Geode user. So please introduce yourselves! > > -- > Greg Chase > > Global Head, Big Data Communities > http://www.pivotal.io/big-data > > Pivotal Software > http://www.pivotal.io/ > > 650-215-0477 > @GregChase > Blog: http://geekmarketing.biz/ >
