🌎 Vitaly GordonCo Founder

United States - Mountain View, California

Big Data Scientist with strong computer science and applied mathematical background, Deep knowledge of existing data mining algorithms. I am a big fan of Scala and use it daily to develop scalable data mining flows. My biggest passion is using numbers to tell a story to drive businesses forward.

Specialties: Expert in Data Mining and Machine Learning
Expert in the Hadoop stack (MapReduce/HBase/Pig/Hive)
Experience with Mahout data mining library
Expert in various OO programming languages (Java, C#, C++)
Expert in functional languages such as: Scala
Proficient in scripting languages: Python/Bash
Proficient with mathematical scripting languages (Matlab and R)
Strong understanding of RDBMS, SQL, noSQL alternatives

Speaking engagements:
Keynote at Big Data World 2013 - Largest Big Data event in South Korea - http://bit.ly/13ht7gb
Judge on the Big Data track at Under The Radar - One of the largest startup showcases in the Bay Area - http://bit.ly/1bAjfpJ
Scala Days - World's largest Scala conference - http://bit.ly/11OuVTV
Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts Meetup - Second largest Scala meetup in the world - http://bit.ly/YZA0Cz
IGT Cloud Meetup - Largest meetup in Israel - http://bit.ly/XaZ2gF
Israel Tech Talk - http://bit.ly/114ImKS

I tweet at @bigdatasc
I blog at blog.vitalygordon.com