Andy is a mathematician-turned-distributed computing entrepreneur. Besides running Skills Matter's Spark (and other) courses, Andy also participated in many projects using spark, cassandra, and other distributed technologies, in a range of fields including Geospatial, IoT, Automotive and Smart cities projects. Andy is the creator of the Spark Noeboo, the only reactive and fully Scala notebook for Apache Spark.

In 2015, Xavier Tordoir and Andy founded Data Fellas working on their product offering for the Reactive Data Science toolkit.

Since 2015, Andy is a member of program committee of the O’Reilly Strata events, he's also a regular speaker/keynote at Skills Matter conferences including the Scala eXchange, as well as other technology events across the globe, sharing his skills, ideas and expertise on distributed technologies and machine learning.

Check out the spark-notebook here, or take a look at Data Fellas.