many hats at cloudera
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A glimpse into the life of two Cloudera employees and the many hats they wear. As presented to Computer Science House (CSH) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) on February 25th 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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