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Many Hats at Cloudera RIT Computer Science House February 2014 Alex Moundalexis [email protected] @technmsg

Many Hats at Cloudera

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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.

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Many  Hats  at  Cloudera  RIT  Computer  Science  House  

February  2014    

Alex  Moundalexis    

[email protected]  @technmsg  

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Cloudera  •  founded  2008  – 3  engineers  from  Google,  Yahoo,  Facebook  – 1  former  Oracle  execuMve  

•  based  in  Palo  Alto  •  privately  held  •  450+  employees  

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What  Does  Cloudera  Do?  •  product  –  distribuMon  of  Hadoop  components,  Apache  licensed  –  enterprise  tooling  

•  support  •  training  •  services  (aka  consulMng)  •  community  

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Working  LocaMons  Office  @  Palo  Alto   Remote  

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Working  LocaMons  Friend’s  Kitchen   Key  West  

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Obligatory  Customer  Slide  •  BlackBerry  •  Box  •  Expedia  •  Experian  •  eBay  •  Navteq  •  NetApp  

•  Rackspace  •  Samsung  •  Skybox  Imaging  •  Trend  Micro  •  U.S.  Army  

•  Others...  

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How  Did  I  Get  Here?  •  Commodore  64  –  BASIC  

•  tried  to  run  Doom  on  386  w/  4  MB  memory  –  learned  troubleshooMng  

•  ran  a  BBS  –  modding  C  code,  badly  

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How  Did  I  Get  Here?  •  RIT  ’03  •  NYU-­‐Poly  ’12  •  10  years  defense  contractor  – hired  brain  muscle,  not  brawn  – system  administraMon,  networking,  development  

•  Luck…  and  personal  networking  

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My  Boss  

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Many  Hats  

I  get  involved  in  everything…  

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Many  Hats  

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

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consultant  

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consultant  

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consultant  

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varying  working  condiMons  

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environmental  extremes  open   locked  down  

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consultant  for  federal  

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firefighter  

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contributor  

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reviewer  

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chauffer  

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food  picker-­‐upper  

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photographer  

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coworking  host  

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booth  beard  

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swag  hander-­‐outer  

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support  liaison  

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conference  adendee  

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speaker  

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jet-­‐seder  

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rental  car  jockey  

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hotel  resident  

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west  coast  sunset  verifier  

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foodie  

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t-­‐shirt  model  

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t-­‐shirt  hoarder  

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author  &  copy  editor  

CC  BY-­‐SA  2.0  Michael  Mandiberg:  hdp://flic.kr/p/6Kdfo6/  

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interviewer  

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Many  Hats  

I  get  involved  in  everything…  …almost.  

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Same  but  Different  

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

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Many  Hats  

I  also  got  involved  in  everything…  

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Commider  

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Communicator  

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Scheduler  

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Tester  

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

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Deadline  Enthusiast  

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PMC  

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QuesMons?  

     

Yes,  we’re  hiring.  

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Openings  at  Cloudera!  Summer  Interns   Everything  

hCp://bit.ly/MoPXkY   hCp://bit.ly/OuciQ6  

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Special  Thanks  

@wxs  @mfisher  

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Thanks!  

Alex  Moundalexis    

[email protected]  @technmsg  Unless  otherwise  noted,  content  Copyright  ©  2010-­‐2013  Alex  Moundalexis.  All  rights  reserved.  

Sean  Busbey    

[email protected]  @busbeytheelder