Marcelo Ochoa works at the systems laboratory of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the CTO at www.scotas.com, a company that specializes in near-real-time search solutions using Apache Solr and Oracle. He divides his time between university jobs and external projects related to Oracle and big data technologies. He has worked on several Oracle-related projects, such as the translation of Oracle manuals and multimedia CBTs. His background is in database, network, web, and Java technologies. In the XML world, Marcelo is known as the developer of DB Generator for the Apache Cocoon project. He has worked on the open source projects DBPrism and DBPrism CMS, Lucene-Oracle integration using the Oracle JVM Directory implementation, and the Restlet.org project, where he worked on the Oracle XDB Restlet Adapter, an alternative to writing native REST web services inside a database-resident JVM.
Since 2006, he has been part of an Oracle ACE program and has recently linked to a Docker Mentor program.
Marcelo has coauthored Oracle Database Programming Using Java and Web Services by Digital Press and Professional XML Databases by Wrox Press. He has been a technical reviewer on several Packt books, such as Mastering Elastic Stack, Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x - Third Edition, Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition, and so on.
