About Me

I’m a software engineer with more than 30 years of professional experience in a wide range of industries, including Banking, Media, Insurance, Hardware, and Software. I have co-founded two startups (one was acquired, one failed).

I have been specializing in query engines and distributed systems for the past 10 years.

I started the DataFusion and Ballista query engine projects and donated both to the Apache Software Foundation as part of the Apache Arrow project, where I am now a PMC member. I also donated the initial Rust implementation of Apache Arrow.

I am the original author of the sqlparser-rs project, which is the leading open-source SQL parser for the Rust ecosystem.

I currently work for NVIDIA, where I contribute to the Spark RAPIDS accelerator for Apache Spark, which GPU-accelerates Spark SQL and ETL jobs without code changes.

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