- I am a committer on Apache Hadoop, a member of the Hadoop Project Management Committee, and an Apache Member.
- I work for Cloudera, which provides Hadoop software and services.
- I am the author of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly.
- I founded the Apache Whirr project, for running distributed systems in the cloud.
- I live in San Francisco with my family. We moved from the Brecon Beacons in Wales in 2009, having moved from London two years earlier.
- I regularly give technical talks on Hadoop and cloud computing.
- I've written lots of technical articles over the years. I used to write a Java blog over at java.net. More recently, I've written on Cloudera's blog.
- I have a few projects hosted on github.
- You can find me on Twitter, and LinkedIn.