Chris Wensel

Chris K Wensel has been a Software and Systems Architect for over 15 years. He is the founder of Concurrent Inc., and the author of the Cascading data processing open-source project. He's also a Principal at Scale Unlimited, a professional services company offering commercial training and consulting for Hadoop and related scale-free architectures. Over the last 7 years he has deployed large and sophisticated data processing applications for use by companies providing geo-spatial, web content, and financial data services in both the traditional enterprise data-center and on Amazon EC2.