Hi, I'm Paco Nathan, formerly at Mesosphere, and now evangelist for Apache Spark and head of training at Databricks. Also and O'Reilly author much involved with the Strata conf and other fun projects around ORM, and an equity partner at Amplify Partners. I've enjoyed wonderful experiences working with several of you at a variety of companies, and really look forward to the inaugural #MesosCon!
My background is a combo of quantitative and distrib systems: 30 yrs background in ML, AI @ Bell Labs way way back, led Data teams at scale for 10 yrs, and had the odd distinction of building one of the first 100% cloud architectures. FWIW, I'm a big fan of Clojure, Python, Emacs, and large sparse matrices, not necessarily in that order :) Paco http://liber118.com/pxn/ On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Dave Lester <daveles...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I thought it would be nice to kickoff a thread for folks to introduce > themselves in advance of #MesosCon > <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon>, so here goes: > > My name is Dave Lester, and I am Open Source Advocate at Twitter. Twitter > is an organizing sponsor for #MesosCon, and I've worked closely with Chris > Aniszczyk, the Linux Foundation, and a great team of volunteers to > hopefully make this an awesome community event. > > I'm interested in meeting more companies using Mesos that we can add to > our #PoweredByMesos list > <http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-mesos/>, and > chatting with folks about Apache Aurora > <http://aurora.incubator.apache.org>. Right now my Thursday and Friday > evenings are free, so let's grab a beer and chat more. > > I'm also on Twitter: @davelester > > Next! >
