Gary is a Committer and PMC member for the Apache HBase project. He works on HBase and Hadoop development at Twitter, and has contributed to security, coprocessors, and the RPC stack. In past roles, Gary has worked with Trend Micro and Meetup.
Lars Hofhansl
Architect, Salesforce.com
HBase Committer since October 2011
Lars is an HBase Committer and PMC member. He is an Architect at Salesforce.com, where he leads HBase development efforts, recently focusing on performance, backup, and disaster recovery. In the past Lars has held engineering roles at PeopleSoft and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Jonathan Hsieh
Software Engineer, Cloudera
HBase Committer since January 2012
Jonathan is a Software Engineer with Cloudera, currently focused on the Apache HBase project. He is an Apache HBase committer and PMC member, a committer and founder of the Apache Flume project, and a committer on the Apache Sqoop project.
Doug Meil
Chief Software Architect, Explorys Medical
HBase Committer since August 2011
Doug is a Committer and PMC member for the Apache HBase project, and is the Chief Software Architect at Explorys, a medical informatics software company.
Andrew Purtell
Systems Architect, Intel
HBase Committer since October 2008
Andrew is a Committer and PMC member for the Apache HBase project. Andrew is a Principal Architect at Intel in the Big Data Platform Engineering Group, whose current focus includes security, coprocessors, the next generation of commodity hardware, and the constraints of the Java sandbox on the Hadoop ecosystem. Previously, Andrew worked at Trend Micro, Sparta, and McAfee.
Enis Söztutar
Member of Technical Staff, Hortonworks
HBase Committer since September 2012
Enis is an Apache HBase, Hadoop, and Gora committer and member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has been using and developing Hadoop ecosystem projects since 2007. He is currently working at Hortonworks as a part of the HBase engineering team.
Michael Stack – Chair
Software Engineer, Cloudera
HBase Committer since May 2007
Michael Stack is an engineer on Cloudera’s HBase team. He is Chair of the Apache HBase PMC and a member of the Apache Hadoop PMC.
Liyin Tang
Software Engineer, Facebook
HBase Committer since May 2012
Liyin Tang is a software engineer for the Data Infrastructure team at Facebook, where he focuses on building high available and reliable storage services, and helps the service scale in the face of exponential data growth. Liyin is an HBase Committer and also contributes to other open source projects including HDFS and Hive.
