Vladimir Stoyak

"Vladimir is currently a Big Data Principal Consultant at Pythian, and well-known for his expertise in a variety of big data and machine learning technologies including Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hbase, and Cassandra. As a big data expert with over 20 years of global experience, he has worked on projects for enterprise clients across five continents while being part of professional services teams for Apple Computers Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., and Blackboard Inc. Throughout his career in IT, Vladimir has been involved in a number of startups. He was Director of Application Services for Fusepoint (formerly known as RoundHeaven Communications), which grew by over 1,400% in 5 years, and was recently acquired by CenturyLink. He also founded AlmaLOGIC Solutions Incorporated, an e-Learning Analytics company."