Workshop: Mind blown: Crafting a Distributed Data Science Pipeline using Spark, Cassandra, Akka and the Spark Notebook
Andy Petrella
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.
Xavier Tordoir
Xavier started his career as a researcher in Experimental Physics, and also focused on data processing. Further down the road, he took part in projects in finance, genomics, and software development for academic research. During that time, he worked on timeseries, on the prediction of biological molecular structures and interactions, and applied Machine Learning methodologies. He developed solutions to manage and process data distributed across data centres. He founded and now works at Data Fellas, a company dedicated to distributed computing and advanced analytics, leveraging Scala, Spark, and other distributed technologies.