Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski's interest is in better and more productive ways to develop highly scalable and reliable software systems. Before joining PayPal, he was the CTO and founder of SciSpike, a company doing custom development and consulting. His recent projects include Big Data and Internet of Things systems for Smart Cities, healthcare, reactive Big Data and Web Scale systems and introducing Scala, Akka, and Spark in a large financial organization. Vladimir is the author of the O'Reilly course "Introduction to Big Data" and coauthor of O'Reilly course on Kafka.
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