Dr.Konstantin Boudnik, co-founder and CEO of Memcore Inc, is one of the early developers of Hadoop and a co-author of Apache BigTop, the open source framework and the community around creation of software stacks for data processing projects. With more than 20 years of experience in software development, big- and fast-data analytic, Git, distributed systems and more, Dr. Boudnik has authored 16 US patents in distributed computing. Dr. Boudnik contributed to a dozen of open source projects in the distributed computing, service orchestration and data processing. He has helped and championed a number of successful Apache projects in the area.