many hats at cloudera

Many  Hats  at  Cloudera  RIT  Computer  Science  House  

February  2014    

Alex  Moundalexis    

alexm@clouderagovt.com  @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    

alexm@clouderagovt.com  @technmsg  Unless  otherwise  noted,  content  Copyright  ©  2010-­‐2013  Alex  Moundalexis.  All  rights  reserved.  

Sean  Busbey    

busbey@cloudera.com  @busbeytheelder