Hi Everyone, My name is Mark (current V.P., aka PMC Chair) and I work for Kollective Technology. I am a build engineer by trade and Gradle enthusiast. I have deep ties to the Geode code base, as I have a long history with GemStone Systems and also was with VMware/Pivotal for a while. During my time with Pivotal, I had the opportunity to work on converting the old Ant build into the Gradle build we all enjoy now.
As I have stated in earlier emails, I am here to serve the community the best I can while I am PMC Chair and I hope to grow it in hopes of taking over the world someday ;) --Mark On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg, thanks for kicking off the roll call. Getting to know each other is > super > useful (and can be fun! ;-)). I'll go next: > > I am Roman (your former mentor and current PMC member). I hang around > a lot of ASF big data projects (as a committer and a PMC member), but > lately > I've been gravitating towards IoT as well (Apache Mynewt). I started my > career > at Sun microsystems back at a time when Linux wasn't even 1.x and I've > been doing enterprise software ever since. I was lucky enough to get to > work on > the original Hadoop team at Yahoo! and fall in love with not one but two > elephants (Hadoop and Postgres). Recently I've assumed a position of > VP of Technology at ODPi and I'm still hoping to MHGA! My secret weapon > is Apache Bigtop (which I co-founded) and I'm not afraid to use it! > > I'm here to keep an eye on you guys ;-) No, not really -- this > community is pretty > awesome and it really deserves the TLP status. Frankly, I'm here to be > a fly-on-the > wall observing all the amazing use cases that Geode is powering. I'm also > here > to be able to tell my grandkids that I was there when Geode took over > the world ;-) > > Thanks, > Roman. > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Gregory Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now that Apache Geode is no longer incubating, I thought it would be fun > to > > get to know some of the other people in the community. > > > > My name is Greg Chase and I run community development for Pivotal for big > > data open source communities that Pivotal contributes to. > > > > Some of you may have seen my frequent emails about virtual events I help > > organize for user and contributor education. > > > > Way back in the day, I was a user of the POET FastObjects object > database, > > so I have an affinity for the OO interface of Apache Geode. My first > year > > at Pivotal I ran product marketing for Pivotal GemFire - the code base > that > > led to the initial grant to create Apache Geode. > > > > These days I'm much more of a marketer than a coder, but I still > understand > > the kinds of projects that Apache Geode users are trying to build. > > > > Literally the most fun I've had to date with Geode was helping organize > the > > Apache Geode Summit where I met quite a few participants in this > community. > > > > I know we'd all love to hear more about everyone else's projects, and how > > you became an Apache Geode user. So please introduce yourselves! > > > > -- > > Greg Chase > > > > Global Head, Big Data Communities > > http://www.pivotal.io/big-data > > > > Pivotal Software > > http://www.pivotal.io/ > > > > 650-215-0477 > > @GregChase > > Blog: http://geekmarketing.biz/ > > >
