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 the leading provider of production Hadoop. MapR offers an enterprise-grade Big Data platform—including Hadoop, HBase, Hive, 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:

• Advocating the Lambda Architecture for building fault-tolerant large-scale data processing system.
• Big Data in the Cloud: mainly using Google Compute Engine, see for example my blog post Deploying Storm on GCE.
• 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 (London), and NoSQL matters (Barcelona).

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Some of my past activities:

• I was General Chair of the European Data Forum 2013 (EDF).
• Developing 'MapReduce processing of Linked Data' (mrlin), SPARQLbin.com, 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 co-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 co-chairing the W3C RDB2RDF Working Group that standardised mappings of relational data into RDF.

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

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