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 friendly neighborhood mentor). 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 co-founded) and I'm not afraid to use it! I'm here to help as much as I can to make sure that this community evolves into a vibrant, self-governed, exciting place worthy of being a top level project (TLP) at ASF. If you have any questions or ideas that you may want to bounce off of me -- please don't hesitate to reach out directly or on the mailing list. Thanks, Roman. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Gregory Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear HAWQs, > > 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. > > Not so long ago, I was in charge of product marketing for an in-memory data > warehouse named after a Hawaiian town from a three-letter acronymed German > Company. We treated Hadoop as an external table, and returning results from > these queries was both slow and brittle due to the network transfer rates. > > So I have a special appreciation of the innovation that has gone into > creating Hadoop-native HAWQ out of PostgreSQL and Greenplum. > > These days I'm much more of a marketer than a coder, but I still love hearing > about the kinds of projects that HAWQ users are involved in. > > I know we'd all love to hear more about everyone else's projects, and how you > became a HAWQ 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/ >
