Michael Hausenblas

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My name is Michael Hausenblas and I work at MapR Technologies as Chief Data Engineer.

MapR Technologies is the leading provider of production Hadoop. MapR offers an enterprise-grade Big Data platform—including Hadoop, Spark, Storm, etc.—supporting many mission-critical & real-time production use cases at over 500 paying customers, worldwide.

If you want to share some Big Data/NoSQL related newsworthy items with me, please use michael.hausenblas@infoq.com, and use m.hausenblas@acm.org for any other general enquiries.

Activities

Some of my active projects:

• Maintaining The Apache Spark Stack advocacy site.
• Advocating the Lambda Architecture for building fault-tolerant large-scale data processing system.
• Blogging on polyglot processing, stream processing and IoT.
• Contributing to the Apache Drill Incubator, where I help building an interactive, distributed query engine and contribute to drill-user.org.
• Public speaking engagements including but not limited to: various Hadoop & Big Data User Groups, Hadoop Summit (Amsterdam), Strata Europe 2014, and NoSQL matters.

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Some of my past activities:

• Research and development in the realm of Internet of Things (IoT): HTTP and CoAP, Mobile Augmented Reality (position paper, demo), Live Linked Open Sensor Database.
• I was General Chair of the European Data Forum 2013 (EDF).
• Co-creator and maintainer of the 5 ★ Open Data site, explaining costs & benefits of Open Data incl. examples for each stage.
• Developed the 'Rapid-Appraisal Crawler for Original Open data Nuggets' (Racoon).
• Initiator and co-maintainer of enable-cors.org to advocate good practices around CORS.
• Inventor of and contributor to the 'Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets' (VoID) that allows to describe RDF-based datasets.
• I was co-chairing the W3C RDB2RDF Working Group that standardised mappings of relational data into RDF.

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