Hi everyone, My name is Renato Marroquin and I would also like to apply for GSoC this year. I have a bit of experience with MapReduce, specifically Hadoop and Pig-Latin. I have completed my masters degree on databases (specifically cloud data management) and I really want to keep on working with hadoop related technologies specially with the ones which involve the open source community (: While doing my masters I was working for a bioinformatics laboratory where we tested a couple of NoSQL solutions (HBase and Cassandra) for genomic data. But going through the code of both Cassandra and HBase they really have come a long way. We also worked creating different data flows for scientific data analysis using MapReduce and Pig-Latin. Hope to be able to become a more active member on the list, so we can make Gora a bigger project.
Renato M.
