About the Reviewers

Skanda Bhargav is an Engineering graduate from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. He did his majors in Computer Science and Engineering. He is currently employed with an MNC based out of Bangalore. Skanda is a Cloudera Certified developer in Apache Hadoop. His interests are Big Data and Hadoop.

Yanick Champoux is currently sailing the Big Data seas as a solutions architect. In his spare time, he hacks Perl, grows orchids, and writes comic books.

Cyril Ganchev is a system administrator, database administrator, and a software developer living in Sofia, Bulgaria. He received a master's degree in Computer Systems and Technologies from the Technical University of Sofia in 2005.

In 2002, he started working as a system administrator in an Internet Café while studying at the Technical University of Sofia. In 2004, he began working as a software developer for the biggest Bulgarian IT company, Information Services Plc. He has been involved in many projects for the Bulgarian government, the Bulgarian National Bank, the National Revenue Agency, and others. He has been involved in several government elections in Bulgaria, writing the code that calculates the results.

Since 2012, he is working remotely for a Canadian company, Pythian. He started as an Oracle Database Administrator. In 2013, he transitioned to a newly formed team focused on Big Data and NoSQL.

Cyril Ganchev is an Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional and Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Associate.

Alan Gardner is a solutions architect and developer specializing in designing Big Data systems. These systems incorporate technologies including Hadoop, Apache Kafka, and Storm, as well as Data Science techniques. Alan enjoys presenting his projects and shares his experience extensively at user groups and conferences. He also plays with functional programming and mobile and web development in his spare time.

Alan is also deeply involved in Ottawa's developer community, consulting with multiple organizations to help non-technical stakeholders organize developer events. With his group, Ottawa Drones, he runs hack days where developers can network, exchange ideas, and build their skills while programming flying robots.