I began my present profession path with Hortonworks in 2016, again once we nonetheless needed to inform folks what Hadoop was. As soon as I set to work with all of the wonderful open-source Apache instruments I used to be hooked. I discovered Apache NiFi particularly fascinating. Quickly after, I turned an enormous fan of Apache Kafka. Coupled with wonderful expertise was an incredible workforce that solely grew and improved with the merger with Cloudera.
When the pandemic hit, I discovered myself needing a little bit of change. A possibility to pursue an thrilling new undertaking at a significant fortune 500 firm got here up and I made a decision to present it a strive.
The grass isn’t at all times greener
Whereas the chance was thrilling, I noticed that I missed the outdated workforce, the open-source surroundings, revolutionary tasks, and Cloudera general. Then, a revered streaming chief at Cloudera reached out and shared that it was time to push the Dream Stream Group ahead—I used to be throughout it and jumped again in head first.
Upon my return, I used to be supplied the chance to attend Cloudera’s Gross sales Kick-Off (SKO) which, regardless of being away for a 12 months, meant that I had attended each in-person SKO since 2017. My first 12 months in attendance, we had such a big new group that we needed to have our personal YASK (yet one more gross sales kick-off). We had been such an incredible class of extraordinary people, we made an outstanding workforce. It was with this workforce that I used to be capable of develop right into a principal engineer. In the present day, lots of those self same workforce members are nonetheless right here at Cloudera driving the brand new ultramodern information platform.
The neighborhood at Cloudera and the group of ever-expanding gifted people make Cloudera an thrilling place to work. The truth that we’re a part of a larger open-source neighborhood makes all of it much more unimaginable.
Sure, the times of Hadoop are gone, however we did the inconceivable and constructed a good higher information platform whereas nonetheless empowering open-source and the totally different groups. There isn’t a different firm fairly like this. I imagine that now greater than ever having had extra expertise in different high organizations.
New alternatives in my space of ardour
In the present day, I’ve a daring new function wherein I attain out to builders, information engineers, information scientists, programmers, directors, and what I’m calling “Citizen Streaming Engineers,” to point out them the brand new world of open-source streaming and what anybody can construct with this open-source expertise. Within the close to future, I’ll be presenting in Halifax’s Group Over Code, discussing Cloudera’s open-source tasks. It’s the Apache Software program Basis’s greatest occasion of the 12 months. It’s an ideal celebration of the inspiring neighborhood that’s open-source software program and I’m honored to be a part of all of it. I’m particularly completely happy to be representing Cloudera.
If a profession in revolutionary expertise is what you need and also you’re excited concerning the open-source neighborhood, Cloudera is perhaps the place for you. See what alternatives we’ve obtainable.
