I have been a programmer since I was a young child in the Gifted and Talent Program in Rutherford, NJ back in 1979. I started programming on Commodore PETs – 4 bit. And then Apple IIs, Commodore 64s and some others. Basic, then Pascal, Fortran, C, C++, Java, JavaScript and more. I was a Senior Solutions Architect at AirisData working with Spark and Machine Learning. Previously I was a Senior Software Engineer at SecurityScorecard ("http://securityscorecard.com/) helping to build a reactive platform for monitoring real-time 3rd party vendor security risk. Before that I was a Senior Field Engineer for Pivotal. I blog for Dzone through http://agilemobiledeveloper.com http://sparkdeveloper.com/ http://dataflowdeveloper.com Come to my meetup in Princeton: http://www.meetup.com/futureofdata-princeton/