Andrea Mostosi is a passionate software developer. He started software development in 2003 at high school with a single-node LAMP stack and grew with it by adding more languages, components, and nodes. He graduated in Milan and worked on several web-related projects. He is currently working with data, trying to discover information hidden behind huge datasets.
Reynold Xin is an Apache Spark committer and the lead developer for Shark and GraphX, two computation frameworks built on top of Spark. He is also a co-founder of Databricks which works on transforming large-scale data analysis through the Apache Spark platform. Before Databricks, he was pursuing a PhD in the UC Berkeley AMPLab, the birthplace of Spark.
Aside from engineering open source projects, he frequently speaks at Big Data academic and industrial conferences on topics related to databases, distributed systems, and data analytics. He also taught Palestinian and Israeli high-school students Android programming in his spare time.