I began my present profession path with Hortonworks in 2016, again once we nonetheless needed to inform individuals 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 grew to become an enormous fan of Apache Kafka. Coupled with wonderful know-how was a tremendous 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 chance to pursue an thrilling new undertaking at a significant fortune 500 firm got here up and I made a decision to offer it a strive.
The grass isn’t at all times greener
Whereas the chance was thrilling, I noticed that I missed the previous workforce, the open-source atmosphere, progressive tasks, and Cloudera general. Then, a revered streaming chief at Cloudera reached out and shared that it was time to push the Dream Stream Crew ahead—I used to be throughout it and jumped again in head first.
Upon my return, I used to be offered 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 (one more gross sales kick-off). We had been such a tremendous class of extraordinary people, we made an outstanding workforce. It was with this workforce that I used to be in a position to develop right into a principal engineer. Right this moment, lots of those self same workforce members are nonetheless right here at Cloudera driving the brand new ultramodern knowledge platform.
The group at Cloudera and the group of ever-expanding proficient people make Cloudera an thrilling place to work. The truth that we’re a part of a higher open-source group makes all of it much more unbelievable.
Sure, the times of Hadoop are gone, however we did the not possible and constructed an excellent higher knowledge 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
Right this moment, I’ve a daring new function during which I attain out to builders, knowledge engineers, knowledge scientists, programmers, directors, and what I’m calling “Citizen Streaming Engineers,” to indicate them the brand new world of open-source streaming and what anybody can construct with this open-source know-how. 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 largest occasion of the 12 months. It’s an awesome celebration of the inspiring group that’s open-source software program and I’m honored to be a part of all of it. I’m particularly joyful to be representing Cloudera.
If a profession in progressive know-how is what you need and also you’re excited concerning the open-source group, Cloudera could be the place for you. See what alternatives now we have accessible.