About the Author

Akash Tandon is an independent consultant and experienced full-stack data engineer. Previously, he was a senior data engineer at Atlan, where he built software for enterprise data science teams. In another life, he had worked on data science projects for governments, and built risk assessment tools at a FinTech startup. As a student, he wrote open source software with the R project for statistical computing and Google. In his free time, he researches things for no good reason. Sandy Ryza is software engineer at Elementl. Previously, he developed algorithms for public transit at Remix and was a senior data scientist at Cloudera and Clover Health. He is an Apache Spark committer, Apache Hadoop PMC member, and founder of the Time Series for Spark project. Uri Laserson is founder & CTO of Patch Biosciences. Previously, he worked on big data and genomics at Cloudera. Sean Owen is a principal solutions architect focusing on machine learning and data science at Databricks. He is an Apache Spark committer and PMC member, and co-author Advanced Analytics with Spark. Previously, he was director of Data Science at Cloudera and an engineer at Google. Josh Wills is an independent data science and engineering consultant, the former head of data engineering at Slack and data science at Cloudera, and wrote a tweet about data scientists once.