An entrepreneurially-minded technologist and team leader, with experience across a wide breadth of skills and environments: from ad-tech start-ups to Wall St. firms, from server-side infrastructure to client-side GUI`s. Areas of expertise include distributed computing, high-performance/scalable architectures, and databases. Strong technical skills in Spark, Hadoop, Java, Python, Scala, Linux and numerous related technologies, as well as agile software development techniques. buzzwords: java, linux, spark, hadoop, cloudera, python, scala, ec2, s3, database, sql, mysql, postgresql, agile, tdd, Test-Driven, datasynapse, nagios, ldap, centos, ubuntu, mina, netty, netezza, ad tech, aws, geo, wkt, s2, hyperlocal, latitude, longitude, geospatial, spatiotemporal, big data, open source, cloud, distributed, kdb Specialties: Distributed computing, high-performance/scalable architectures, Java, Linux, databases, Ad Tech. ©