Michael Hausenblas

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My name is Michael Hausenblas and I work at MapR Technologies, as Chief Data Engineer for the EMEA region.

MapR Technologies is a startup founded in 2009 that offers an enterprise-grade Big Data platform (incl. Hadoop, Storm, Drill, etc.), supporting many mission-critical & real-time production uses.

My email address is michael.hausenblas@gmail.com.

Activities

Some of my active projects:

Contributing to the Apache Drill Incubator, where I help building an interactive analytics system for large-scale datasets and also post updates on the drill-user.org blog.
A number of public speaking engagements incl. Hadoop Summit, various Hadoop & Big Data User Groups, NoSQL matters, CloudEast, Berlin Buzzwords and serving on the PC of the Strata Conference in London 2013 to name a few.

Some of my previous projects:

I was General Chair of the European Data Forum 2013 (EDF).
Developing 'MapReduce processing of Linked Data' (mrlin), SPARQLbin.com, Turtled, and the 'Rapid-Appraisal Crawler for Original Open data Nuggets' (Racoon).
Co-creator and maintainer of the 5 ★ Open Data site, explaining costs & benefits of Open Data incl. examples for each stage.
Initiator and maintainer of enable-cors.org to advocate good practices around CORS.
Initiator of Schema.RDFS.org, an effort to support Schema.org usage with a focus on Linked Data.
Inventor of and contributor to the 'Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets' (VoID) that allows to describe RDF-based datasets.
I was the co-ordinator of the LATC Support Action, which ran from 09/2010 to 08/2012, where we helped people and institutions to publish and consume Linked Data. We developed a SaaS app for linking data and published some 20+ datasets.
Together with Ashok Malhorta (Oracle) I was co-chairing the W3C RDB2RDF Working Group that standardised mappings of relational data into RDF.

More ...

For more details on projects, publications, etc. see my CV.

For a detailed list of people I had the pleasure to work with so far see my semanticweb.org profile [HTML] [RDF].

For software I have developed see my cards over at geekli.st and I'm also hanging out on StackExchange: