Brock NolandBrock Noland followed Kudu months before the first line of code was written, by following Todd Lipcon's paper reading habits. Brock is Chief Architect of phData, a pure-play Hadoop Managed Service Provider. Prior to founding phData, Brock spent four ears at Cloudera as a Trainer, Solution Architect, Engineer, Sales Engineer, and Engineering Manager. Brock is a co-founder of Apache Sentry and Apache Project Committee Member on Apache Hive, Parquet, Crunch, Flume, and Incubator. Brock was a mentor to Kudu in the incubator and currently mentors Apache Impala (incubating). In addition he is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Brock is frequent public speaker, having spoken at dozens of conferences including HBaseCon, numerous Hadoop User Groups, and other conferences. Read More Read Less