Robbie Strickland got involved in the Apache Cassandra project in 2010, and he initially went into production with the 0.5 release. He has made numerous contributions over the years, including his work on drivers for C# and Scala, and multiple contributions to the core Cassandra codebase. In 2013, he became the very first certified Cassandra developer, and in 2014, DataStax selected him as an Apache Cassandra MVP.

While this is Robbie's first published technical book, he has been an active speaker and writer in the Cassandra community and is the founder of the Atlanta Cassandra Users Group. Other examples of his writing can be found on the DataStax blog, and he has conducted numerous webinars and spoken at many conferences over the years.