Sandeep Khurana is an early proponent in the domain of big data and analytics, which started during his days in Yahoo! (originator of Hadoop). He has been part of many other industry leaders in the same domain such as IBM Software Lab, Oracle, Yahoo!, Nokia, VMware and an array of startups where he was instrumental in architecting, designing and building multiple petabyte scale big data processing systems, which has stood the test of industry rigor. He is completely in his elements with coding in all the big data technologies such as MapReduce, Spark, Pig, Hive, ZooKeeper, Flume, Oozie, HBase, and Kafka. With the wealth of experience arising from being around for 21 years in the industry, he has developed a unique trait of solving the most complicated and critical architectural issues with the simplest and most efficient means. Being an early entrant in the industry he has worked in all aspects of Java/JEE-based technologies and frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA, EJB, security, and Struts before he delved into the big data domain. Some of his other present areas of interest are OAuth2, OIDC, micro services frameworks, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He is quite active on LinkedIn (/skhurana333) with his tech talks.
Brian Gatt is a software developer who holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and artificial intelligence from the University of Malta, and a masters degree in computer games and entertainment from Goldsmiths University of London. In his spare time, he likes to keep up with the latest in programming, specifically native C++ programming and game development techniques.
