I began my present profession path with Hortonworks in 2016, again after 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 turned an enormous fan of Apache Kafka. Coupled with wonderful expertise was a tremendous crew 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 mission at a significant fortune 500 firm got here up and I made a decision to offer it a strive.
The grass isn’t all the time greener
Whereas the chance was thrilling, I noticed that I missed the previous crew, the open-source atmosphere, revolutionary initiatives, and Cloudera total. Then, a revered streaming chief at Cloudera reached out and shared that it was time to push the Dream Stream Workforce 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 yr, meant that I had attended each in-person SKO since 2017. My first yr 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 have been such a tremendous class of extraordinary people, we made an exceptional crew. It was with this crew that I used to be in a position to develop right into a principal engineer. At present, a lot of those self same crew members are nonetheless right here at Cloudera driving the brand new ultramodern knowledge platform.
The neighborhood 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 neighborhood makes all of it much more unbelievable.
Sure, the times of Hadoop are gone, however we did the not possible and constructed a good higher knowledge platform whereas nonetheless empowering open-source and the completely different groups. There isn’t any different firm fairly like this. I consider that now greater than ever having had extra expertise in different high organizations.
New alternatives in my space of ardour
At present, 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 expertise. Within the close to future, I’ll be presenting in Halifax’s Group Over Code, discussing Cloudera’s open-source initiatives. It’s the Apache Software program Basis’s greatest occasion of the yr. It’s an awesome 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 satisfied to be representing Cloudera.
If a profession in revolutionary expertise is what you need and also you’re excited in regards to the open-source neighborhood, Cloudera is perhaps the place for you. See what alternatives we’ve got obtainable.
