Dean Wampler is the vice president of Fast Data Engineering at Lightbend, where he leads the Lightbend Fast Data Platform project, a distribution of scalable, distributed stream processing tools including Spark, Flink, Kafka, and Akka, with machine learning and management tools.

Dean is the author of "Programming Scala and Functional Programming" for Java Developers and the coauthor of "Programming Hive". He’s a contributor to several open source projects, a frequent Strata speaker, and the co-organizer of several conferences around the world.

He earned his BS and MS at the University of Virginia in Physics, and his Ph.D in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of Washington.

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