Speaker - Paul Brebner

Paul is an Open Source Technology Evangelist at Instaclustr (now part of Spot by NetApp). For the past seven years, he has been learning new scalable Big Data technologies, building realistic demonstration applications, and blogging and talking about a growing list of open-source technologies including Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache ZooKeeper, Redis, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Cadence, and many more. Since learning to program on a VAX 11/780, Paul has extensive R&D, teaching, and consulting experience in distributed systems, technology innovation, software architecture and engineering, performance engineering, grid and cloud computing, and data analytics and machine learning. Paul has also worked at Waikato University (New Zealand), University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO, Australia), University College London (UCL, UK), National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australian National University (ANU), and several tech start-ups (including as a Founder/CTO). Paul has an MSc (1st Class Hons, Waikato) in Machine Learning and a BSc (Computer Science and Philosophy, Waikato).