A glimpse into the life of two Cloudera employees and the many hats they wear. As presented to Computer Science House (CSH) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) on February 25th 2014.

1. Many
Hats
at
Cloudera
RIT
Computer
Science
House
February
2014
Alex
Moundalexis
@technmsg

2. Cloudera
• founded
2008
– 3
engineers
from
Google,
Yahoo,
Facebook
– 1
former
Oracle
execuKve
• based
in
Palo
Alto
• privately
held
• 450+
employees

3. What
Does
Cloudera
Do?
• product
– distribuKon
of
Hadoop
components,
Apache
licensed
– enterprise
tooling
• support
• training
• services
(aka
consulKng)
• community

4. Working
LocaKons
Office
@
Palo
Alto
Remote

5. Working
LocaKons
Friend’s
Kitchen
Key
West

6. Obligatory
Customer
Slide
• BlackBerry
• Box
• Expedia
• Experian
• eBay
• Navteq
• NetApp
• Rackspace
• Samsung
• Skybox
Imaging
• Trend
Micro
• U.S.
Army
• Others...

7. How
Did
I
Get
Here?
• Commodore
64
– BASIC
• tried
to
run
Doom
on
386
w/
4
MB
memory
– learned
troubleshooKng
• ran
a
BBS
– modding
C
code,
badly

8. How
Did
I
Get
Here?
• RIT
’03
• NYU-­‐Poly
’12
• 10
years
defense
contractor
– hired
brain
muscle,
not
brawn
– system
administraKon,
networking,
development
• Luck…
and
personal
networking

9. My
Boss

10. Many
Hats
I
get
involved
in
everything…

11. Many
Hats
I
get
involved
in
everything…
…and
it’s
okay.

12. consultant

13. consultant

14. consultant

15. varying
working
condiKons

16. environmental
extremes
open
locked
down

17. consultant
for
federal

18. firefighter

19. contributor

20. reviewer

21. chauffer

22. food
picker-­‐upper

23. photographer

24. coworking
host

25. booth
beard

26. swag
hander-­‐outer

27. support
liaison

28. conference
adendee

29. speaker

30. jet-­‐seder

31. rental
car
jockey

32. hotel
resident

33. west
coast
sunset
verifier

34. foodie

35. t-­‐shirt
model

36. t-­‐shirt
hoarder

37. author
&
copy
editor
CC
BY-­‐SA
2.0
Michael
Mandiberg:
hdp://flic.kr/p/6Kdfo6/

38. interviewer

39. Many
Hats
I
get
involved
in
everything…
…almost.

40. Same
but
Different

41. Same
but
Different
• UIUC
’04
• 10
years
DoD
Civilian
• Share
hire-­‐on
date
with
Cloudera

42. Many
Hats
I
also
got
involved
in
everything…

43. Commider

44. Communicator

45. Scheduler

46. Tester
Public
domain:
hdp://bit.ly/1fGFIE3

47. Deadline
Enthusiast

48. PMC

49. QuesKons?
Yes,
we’re
hiring.

50. Openings
at
Cloudera!
hdp://bit.ly/1BZqpPa

51. Special
Thanks
@wxs
@mfisher

52. Thanks!
Alex
Moundalexis
@technmsg
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otherwise
noted,
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Alex
Moundalexis.
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Busbey
@busbeytheelder