Team
Our goal is to recruit and retain people who are the best at what they do — people who are motivated to achieve results, have high standards of quality and integrity, possess a flexible, entrepreneurial spirit and want to develop to their full potential.
Mike Olson
Michael Olson was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as Vice President for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business roles at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Amr Awadallah
Dr. Amr Awadallah co-founded VivaSmart in June of 1999. Yahoo! acquired VivaSmart in June 2000, and uses the VivaSmart technology as the core of the Yahoo! shopping service. Amr served as Vice President of Engineering, and led a team that used Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across the Yahoo! online services. Before starting Cloudera, Amr was an Entreprenuer-in-Residence at Accel partners from June 2008 to Oct of 2008. Amr holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Jeff was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to Cloudera. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for driving many of the applications of statistics and machine learning at Facebook, as well as building out the infrastructure to support these tasks for massive data sets. The Data team produced open source projects such as Hive and Cassandra and their work was recognized at conferences such as CHI, ICWSM, SIGMOD, and VLDB. Before joining Facebook, Jeff was a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. Jeff earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University and recently served as a Managing Editor for O’Reilly’s “Beautiful Data”.
Aaron T. Myers
Aaron Myers comes to Cloudera from Amie Street, where he worked on all aspects of the software stack, including ops, infrastructure, and customer-facing feature development. Before Amie Street, Aaron interned at Google in 2007 and Macromedia in 2005. Aaron holds both an Sc.B. and an Sc.M. in Computer Science from Brown University, where he focused on systems security and multiprocessor synchronization.
Adam Smieszny
Adam Smieszny is a Sales Engineer who joined Cloudera from Teradata, where he worked as a Solutions Architect in the financial services industry. Adam started at Teradata as a benchmark analyst, where he focused on rapidly performing proof-of-concept and benchmark engagements at a variety of customers across industries. Adam holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati.
Adar Dembo
Adar Dembo comes to Cloudera after spending more than five years at VMware, where he worked on the device virtualization stack for VMware’s desktop products and on the VMware Tools. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Aditya Acharya
Aditya Acharya is a Stanford University alum, and now works on the Cloudera Enterprise team. He holds a BS and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.. Aditya was an intern at Cloudera last summer, and had previous internships in the Server Software group in Apple and on the Search Team at Redfin.
Ahmed Radwan
Ahmed Radwan is joining Cloudera after 2 yrs with the Cloud Computing group at Yahoo!, where he designed and developed solutions for large-scale data management and processing in cloud computing environments. Ahmed holds a Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UM, Florida, USA, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Ahmed’s work and research focus on advancements and applications in cloud and high performance computing, data/metadata management and schema integration. In the past, Ahmed had worked at IBM Almaden Research Center, Mentor Graphics Corp. and the Electronics Research Institute.
Alan Choi
Alan Choi came from Greenplum where he has worked on Greenplum-Hadoop
integration. Before that, he worked extensively on PL/SQL, SQL at
Oracle. He co-authored the Oracle White Paper “Integrating Hadoop Data
with Oracle Parallel Processing” which was published in January 2010.
Alan graduated from Cornell University with an M.Eng and a B.S. in
Computer Science.
Alejandro Abdelnur
Alejandro Abdelnur joined Cloudera from Yahoo Inc, where he was working with their Hadoop team. He designed and led the implementation of Oozie, a workflow system for Hadoop. Alejandro is also an active contributor to Apache Hadoop. Before joining Yahoo, Alejandro was at Google, prior to that at Sun Microsystem where he worked in enterprise systems an co-led The Java Portlet Specification (JSR168). He also worked at Sybase Argentina as a consulting and support engineer. He studied Computer Science at the ‘Escuela Superior Latino Americana de Informatica’ (ESLAI) in La Plata, Argentina.
Alex Kozlov
Alex Kozlov has over 15 years of experience in distributed processing, data analysis and data warehousing at SGI, Hewlett-Packard, Turn, and Adchemy. Alex received an equivalent of Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow State University in 1988 and earned another doctorate in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1998.
Amandeep Khurana
Amandeep is a Solutions Architect at Cloudera. Prior to Cloudera, he was at Amazon Web Services, where he was a developer on the Elastic MapReduce team. Before working for Amazon, Amandeep attended University of California, Santa Cruz, where he attained his MS in Computer Science, and also worked part time at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for building a data integration framework using Hadoop and HBase.
Aparna Ramani
Aparna leads the Cloudera Enterprise Engineering team, responsible for Cloudera’s suite of management and monitoring applications for Hadoop. Aparna comes to Cloudera with a background in large scale distributed systems: at Yahoo!, where she managed several components of Yahoo!’s
Search Monetization platform including the Panama Enterprise Web Services API, and later at Microsoft, where she managed parts of Bing’s Contextual Advertising system. Her other experience includes software development at Fujitsu, Verizon, AT&T and Philips. Aparna holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Bharathiar University, India.
Arvind Prabhakar
Arvind Prabhakar came to Cloudera from Informatica where he architected the Metadata Repository Server and Informatica Modeling Framework. Prior to that Arvind worked at Sun on the OpenSSO and Access Manager projects. Arvind holds a B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Mumbai and an MS degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Bala Venkatrao
Bala Venkatrao joined Cloudera from CA Technologies, where he was the principal author of CA’s cloud strategy that lead to the formation of a new business unit and several strategic acquisitions. He also conceptualized and led the product management efforts for an innovative cloud service management product. He has worked as a management consultant at the Parthenon Group and spent several years at Sun Microsystems, engineering next generation server systems. He holds a Bachelor’s & Masters degree in EE/CS and a MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Basier Aziz
Basier Aziz is a Product Manager who joined Cloudera from Oracle where he conceived and delivered products in the Master Data Management and Supplier Management spaces. Basier earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
bc Wong
bc Wong joined Cloudera after a year of globetrotting, trekking in the Himalayas and the Andes, and diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Before that, he was the NFS project lead at NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco), building a high performance NFS virtualization solution and an online data migration engine. He also ran a photographic equipment retail business. bc graduated from Stanford University with an M.S. and a B.S. in Computer Science.
Carl Steinbach
Carl Steinbach came to Cloudera from Informatica where he worked on ETL software. Before that he worked at NetApp on storage security products, and at Oracle in the Server Technologies group. Carl holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
Chad Metcalf
Chad Metcalf joined Cloudera from Arch Rock Corporation, where he was the QA and release manager. Prior to Arch Rock, Chad worked for SRI and SAIC as a System Engineer doing research and development in information management, distributed computing, and robotics. Chad holds a Master’s in Mathematics and Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines and a Bachelor’s in Molecular Biology from the University of Denver.
Clint Heath
Clint joined Cloudera from Oracle (via Sun) where he was a Principal Technical Support Engineer in the Fusion Middleware Identity Mgmt team. Clint has over 15 years experience in systems administration, data center design/mgmt, development, and technical support. He has worked in the telecom, university research, investment banking, and hi-tech sectors. While working for Texas A&M University, he designed and built a distributed computing cluster that modeled plant growth for drought monitoring systems used in East Africa for disaster relief. He has a B.S. in Econ from Texas A&M University, has founded and operated several businesses, and joins Cloudera as a support engineer.
David Wang
David manages the HBase team at Cloudera. His past experience includes stays at Hewlett-Packard working in HP-UX kernel networking, Juniper Networks designing and implementing various infrastructure projects for JUNOS, Nuova Systems on whatever needed to be done to get the product out the door, and Cisco Systems in a variety of technical and management roles.
Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is a founder of the Apache Hadoop and Lucene projects. He joined Cloudera after three years at Yahoo!. Prior to that, Doug worked at Excite, Apple and Xerox PARC. He has a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Stanford University.
Ed Albanese
Ed Albanese leads business development and strategic alliances at Cloudera. Ed’s enterprise software career spans 15 years across roles in marketing, sales, engineering and consulting. Organizations have included VMware, Microsoft, Virtual Computer, Bose, Clark University, and MRO Software (IBM-acquired). Ed received a BA from the University of Virginia and MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Eli Collins
Eli Collins came to Cloudera from VMware, where he worked on the virtual machine monitor (VMM) and VMkernel. Eli holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from New York University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively.
Eric Sammer
Eric is a Solution Architect and Training Instructor at Cloudera.
Prior to joining Cloudera, he held roles including System
Architect, Director of Technical Operations, and Tech Lead at various
New York City startups focusing on distributed data collection,
processing, and reporting systems. Eric has over 12 years in
development and technical operations and has contributed to various
open source projects such as Gentoo Linux.
Hari Shreedharan
Hari Shreedharan joined Cloudera from Yahoo!, where he worked on building Yahoo! Mail’s metadata storage and retrieval system. Hari did his Master’s at Cornell University, where he specialized in the design and implementation of Distributed Systems. Prior to joining Cornell, he completed his Bachelor’s from National Institute of Technology, Jaipur(India).
Harsh Chouraria
Harsh Chouraria is a Support Engineer at Cloudera. Prior to Cloudera,
Harsh worked at Ericsson on scaling up their telecom-data analytics
product called AnalyticSuite. Harsh holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Information Technology from Anna University at Chennai, India. When
possible, he likes contributing fixes to many open source projects and
hanging out on mailing lists.
Henry Robinson
Henry Robinson joined from the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral work was on mobile distributed systems. Prior to his PhD work, Henry was an analyst at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on automated trading of fixed income securities. He also holds a BSc in computer science from the University of York and a Master’s degree in speech processing and computational linguistics from Cambridge. He is a committer on the Apache ZooKeeper project, and works as a software engineer at Cloudera on large-scale distributed systems.
Herman Chen
Herman Chen joined Cloudera from Symantec, where he built a fraud detection service using business rule engines, clustering algorithms, and device identification technologies. He also improved the scalability and availability of the mission-critical VIP one-time password service. Previously, Herman developed JavaME and BD-J middleware libraries at Aplix in Taiwan. Herman graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Computer Science.
Janice Mandeville
Janice Mandeville was previously a COO, CFO and Controller at several start-ups she co-founded, and managed Investor Relations for a public company. She received her MBA from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Jeff Bean
Jeff Bean comes to Cloudera with a background in software development, training, and presales consulting. He was part of an advanced proof of concept team at IBM/Cognos that made recommendations to existing and potential customers about how to develop with Cognos Business Intelligence software. Prior to that he was at BEA Systems working with ISV and SI partners on BEA Weblogic Communications Platform. Prior to that he was a software developer. Jeff has 10+ years of customer service and software development experience in Java and Linux.
Jolly Chen
Jolly is directing the infrastructure, quality, and release engineering teams at Cloudera. Prior to joining Cloudera, he was an independent consultant focused on helping startups with software engineering management and processes. He was a co-founder of Gauntlet Systems, which was acquired by Borland. At Borland, he directed the team that integrated the Gauntlet technology into Borland’s lifecycle quality management product suite. He was an early employee at WebLogic where he managed the engineering team responsible for QA, release and performance. After WebLogic was acquired by BEA Systems, he transitioned to corporate development where he performed technical due diligence on investment and acquisition opportunities, such as BEA’s early investment in Wily Technology. He was a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley where he worked on database research. He co-authored the SQL parser addition to Postgres that led to the popular open source database now known as PostgreSQL. Jolly earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science from MIT.
Jon Zuanich
Jon Zuanich is a University of Colorado, Boulder alumni where he focused in Business Marketing. At Cloudera, Jon works on a broad range of activities encompassing, yet not limited to: customer marketing, collateral creation, managing blog activity, events planning and managing, and Web site updates.
Jonathan Hsieh
Jonathan Hsieh joined Cloudera from the University of Washington where his research focused on scalable, distributed, stream-filtering systems. Prior to earning a M.S. in Computer Science from UW, Jonathan worked for the U.S. Department of Defense where he focused on computer security. He also holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jonathan Natkins
Jonathan Natkins comes to Cloudera from Vertica Systems, where he was an engineer working on automating database optimization and statistics collection, and later a Systems Engineer focusing on integration with EC2 and sales within the telecommunications and financial services industries. He holds an Sc.B in Mathematics-Computer Science from Brown University.
Joseph Echeverria
Joseph Echeverria joined Cloudera from the NSA where he worked on data mining, network security, and clustered data processing using Hadoop. Prior to working full time for NSA, Joey attended Carnegie Mellon University where he attained an M.S. and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Josh Patterson
Josh Patterson is a Solution Architect at Cloudera. Prior to joining
Cloudera, he was responsible for bringing Hadoop into the smartgrid
during his involvement in the openPDC project. His focus in the
smartgrid realm with Hadoop and HBase was using machine learning to
discover and index anomolies in time series data. Josh is a graduate
of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a Bachelors in
Business Management and a Masters of Computer Science with a thesis
titled “TinyTermite: A Secure Routing Algorithm” where he worked in
mesh networks and swarm algorithms. Josh has over 13 years in software
development and continues to contribute to projects in the open source
community.
Justin Erickson
Justin joined the Cloudera product team from Microsoft, where he was responsible for the new mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery solution in SQL Server 2012 called AlwaysOn. Prior to Microsoft he graduated with from the Stanford with a B.S. in Computer Science.
Kai Voigt
Kai is a training instructor at Cloudera. Prior to Cloudera, he spent 6 years as a principal instructor, teaching all MySQL courses delivered from Oracle, and did this globally. Kai currently resides in Kiel, Germany, and holds a Master’s degree in computer science.
Kate Ting
A byproduct of the IBM way, Kate started off in global sales school, segued to coding nmaahc.si.edu in Ruby on Rails, and then transitioned to supporting mainframe customers during beta releases. While at Santa Clara University (computer engineering BS/MS), she co-created CapPlan – A Network Capacity Planning Tool for LambdaGrids.
Linden Hillenbrand
Linden Hillenbrand is a Technical Account Manager who joined Cloudera from General Electric where he created, built, and led their Hadoop team. Linden started at GE in their Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP) where he focused on infrastructure management, information security, complex data analysis, and then the creation of their Hadoop team. Linden holds an Sc.B in Computer Science-Mathematics from Fairfield University.
Mark Morrissey
Mark is focused on the growth of Cloudera’s Training programs. Prior to Cloudera, he spent the past 15 years focused on business and channel development within such companies as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, MySQL, and Salesforce.com. He resides in Denver, Colorado, and received his MBA from Regis University.
Matt Massie
Matt Massie conceived and implemented the Ganglia cluster and Grid monitoring system in 2000 while working as a Staff Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Today, Ganglia enjoys wide adoption and demonstrates scalability on clusters with thousands of nodes and Grids spanning the globe. His academic papers on distributed cluster monitoring have been cited in hundreds of subsequent articles. Prior to his work at Berkeley, Matt did scientific programming at Purdue University and Washington University Medical Center focused on Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.
Michael Ubell
Michael Ubell joined Cloudera from Oracle where he was an architect for the Berkeley DB product. Michael holds a Masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley where he worked in the Ingres database research group. Since then he has worked on database management systems at Britton-Lee/Sharebase, Illustra/Informix, Digital Equipment and Sleepycat Software.
Omer Trajman
Omer is responsible for Cloudera’s Services, Support and Training. The Customer Solutions team works on improving the process for adopting, developing, managing and operating Hadoop. Prior to joining Cloudera, Omer was responsible for cloud computing and virtualization initiatives at Vertica Systems. Among his projects was the integration of Vertica’s products with Apache Hadoop. He also served as Director of Field Engineering and built and managed Vertica’s customer-facing team. Omer was responsible for ensuring success, from pre-sales to production deployment, for Vertica’s largest customers tackling growing data challenges. Omer received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and was a visiting scholar at Oxford University reading Computation and Electrical Engineering.
Patrick Angeles
Patrick Angeles has a combined 14 years of experience in various technical roles in Data Analytics, Winery E-Commerce, Security and Cryptography. Prior to joining Cloudera, Patrick was a Senior Technology Architect at Simulmedia, where he lead the design and development of a behavioral analytics platform for cable television. Patrick holds a dual major in English and Computer Science from Oberlin College.
Patrick Hunt
Patrick Hunt is the project lead for Apache Hadoop’s ZooKeeper
project. He joins Cloudera after five years at Yahoo! where he worked
in the search, ad technologies, and cloud computing groups
specializing in large-scale distributed systems architecture. During
this time he also drove development of the critically acclaimed
Delicious firefox extension. Prior to joining Yahoo Patrick worked on
enterprise software, founded a startup, designed high performance
network software and dabbled a bit with rocket science (NASA). He has
a bachelors degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
Philip Langdale
Philip Langdale came to Cloudera from VMware, where he worked on desktop products such as VMware Workstation and View. Philip has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has contributed to a number of open-source projects over the years, including the Linux kernel.
Philip Zeyliger
Philip Zeyliger came to Cloudera from Google, where he worked on scalable storage for user-facing applications. Before that, he worked in finance, at D.E. Shaw. Philip holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvard University. His interests include systems and databases. He’s a committer on the Apache Avro project.
Prasanna Rajaperumal
Prasanna Rajaperumal joined Cloudera from Cisco where he was building service oriented infrastructure from Apache open source components (OSGi, Servicemix, CXF, Cassandra) etc. He was the 2nd employee of a previous startup building SOA governance product and before that he was at Fiorano building distributed peer to peer messaging products. He holds a Bachelor of Engg in Computer Science from BITS, pilani (India).
Rob Lancaster
Rob joined Cloudera from Microsoft, where he was part of the global product management team for the SharePoint business. In this role he was responsible for system integrator strategy and worked closely with strategic Microsoft partners. Rob arrived at Microsoft following the $1.2 billion acquisition of FAST. During his time at FAST, Rob managed partner strategy, marketing and development efforts. Rob has over 13 years of experience in software marketing, communications, consulting and business development.
Rob Weltman
Rob manages Platform Engineering. In the past he managed Data Warehouse Engineering and Hadoop Grid Services at Yahoo, including Pig, Grid Solutions, Grid Operations, Grid Management System, and Grid Data Management. During that time he oversaw the expansion of Hadoop usage from research-only on one 1000-node cluster to many clusters in three data centers with 25,000 nodes altogether, serving mission-critical business needs. Besides a couple of stints at Bay Area startups, he worked on and managed enterprise software for several years at Netscape/AOL before getting into Big Data at Yahoo.
Sarah Sproehnle
Sarah joins Cloudera from Oracle where she led a team of MySQL
instructors. Sarah has taught various technology courses for Oracle,
Sun and MySQL over the past decade and been instrumental in building
training teams and curriculum. Sarah received her Computer Science
degree from Grinnell College.
Sho Shimauchi
Sho Shimauchi is a Support Engineer at Cloudera. Prior to joining Cloudera, he spent 5 years at NEC as a Systems Engineer, building out enterprise Linux system infrastructure. Sho has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Chemistry from Kyoto University.
Sunil Sitaula
Sunil Sitaula has 15 years of experience in various technical roles and is a Solutions Architect at Cloudera. Prior to Cloudera Sunil worked at Navteq helping to build an application on top of Hadoop. Before Navteq, Sunil was a Technical Manager at Orbitz where he led their hotel connectivity teams focused on building hotel backend systems. He also worked on various efforts such as guest booking, promotions and coupons, search and booking path redesign. Sunil holds a BA in Computer Science from Grinnell College.
Taka Tazawa
Taka Tazawa joined Cloudera from Red Hat where he worked on the middleware business unit. He has over 22 years of experience in the Japanese IT industry. Taka started at HITACHI where he developed the data management system by assembler. Also at HITACHI, he worked on FAST search and transfer, and BEA systems. His specialties are TP monitor or Java EE middleware. He has written several books, notably, EJB 2.0 and JavaServer Pages. At Cloudera, Taka will expand the Japanese business by building awareness for Cloudera and evangelizing Hadoop.
Tatsuo Kawasaki
Tatsuo Kawasaki joined Cloudera from Red Hat, where he spent 7 years as senior instructor, teaching Linux kernel, performance tunings, and various expert courses and building curriculum in Japan. He is an instructor at Cloudera and he will expand the Japanese education business. Tatsuo has over 20 years of experience in in Japanese IT industry.
Todd Lipcon
Todd Lipcon joined Cloudera from Amie Street, where he worked on infrastructure, operations, data mining, and product development. Previously, Todd interned at Google developing anti-fraud methods for the Risk Engineering group. Todd is a graduate of Brown University, where he completed an honors thesis developing a new collaborative filtering algorithm for the Netflix Prize Competition. At Cloudera, Todd contributes to several products including Hadoop.
Tom Wheeler
Tom Wheeler’s career spans more than fifteen years in the
communications, biotech, financial, healthcare, aerospace and defense
industries. Before joining Cloudera, he developed engineering
software at Boeing, helped to design a high-volume data processing
system for WebMD and served as senior programmer/analyst for a
brokerage firm. Tom is a frequent presenter at user groups and
software conferences, and has held both technical and leadership roles
in open source projects. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech
Communications from Southern Illinois University.
Tom White
Tom White has been an Apache Hadoop committer since February 2007, and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is the author of “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide” published by O’Reilly. Previously he worked as an independent consultant specializing in Hadoop, and before that was co-founder and Lead Developer at Kizoom, a UK mobile application startup. Tom has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a Master’s degree in History and Philosophy of Science from the Universities of Leeds, UK, and Florence, Italy.
Victor Nee
Victor Nee joined Cloudera from Coffer Group, where he delivered IT services to private equity and venture capital firms in the SF Bay Area. Prior to that, he held roles including Technical Services Manager and Systems Administrator while living in NYC. In between the move from NYC to the SF Bay Area, he also spent several months contributing to a bilingual education project in East Asia. Victor graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in Integrative Biology.
Vikram Srivastava
Vikram Srivastava joins Cloudera from the world of trading. He worked as a Financial Engineer building risk management tools and trading systems for hedge funds and prop trading shops in Chicago like Citadel Investment Group and Spot Trading for 4 years. Vikram has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (specializing in Machine Learning) from Stanford University and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Vinithra Varadharajan
Vinithra Varadharajan came to Cloudera from Endeca Technologies, where she worked on building scalable enterprise engines. She is a recipient of the Google Anita Borg award, which recognizes women for their potential to excel and lead in the field of computing. She has a Masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where she created educational software for deaf students called DeSIGN, in addition to her research on Haptics of deformable objects. She has a BEng. in Computer Systems Engineering from Cardiff University, U.K, where she was awarded the prize for the Best Final Year Undergraduate in School of Engineering. She is fluent in English, German, Hindi and Tamil.
Zhenxiao Luo
Zhenxiao Luo came to Cloudera from Vertica Systems where he worked on Column-Store Databases. Before that he did internships in Microsoft Research Asia, NEC Lab, and Google during undergraduate/graduate study. Zhenxiao holds Masters from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and Bachelors from Fudan University, both in Computer Sciences.
