Big Data Scientist with strong computer science and applied mathematical background, Deep knowledge of existing data mining algorithms. I am a big fan of Scala and use it daily to develop scalable data mining flows. My biggest passion is using numbers to tell a story to drive businesses forward.

Specialties: Expert in Data Mining and Machine Learning Expert in the Hadoop stack (MapReduce/HBase/Pig/Hive) Experience with Mahout data mining library Expert in various OO programming languages (Java, C#, C++) Expert in functional languages such as: Scala Proficient in scripting languages: Python/Bash Proficient with mathematical scripting languages (Matlab and R) Strong understanding of RDBMS, SQL, noSQL alternatives