Jerome Boulon

Jerome is founder and CEO of CaliStream, an AWS fully managed service that enables customers to easily stream large volume of events from their applications directly to Hive/Hadoop.

Before CaliStream, Jerome was instrumental in integrating Honu for both Riot Games and Netflix, where the main Honu pipeline collects over 70 billion events per day, providing key metrics to the data science team.

Jerome was also on the Hadoop team at Yahoo!, where he designed, built and open-sourced Chukwa, a data collection pipeline aimed on premise.

Jerome is also part of Data Elite, an accelerator for Big Data start-ups backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital Partnership, Formation8, Ron Conway and Anand Rajaraman.

Over the past 15 years, he worked for companies like Convera, Fast Search & Transfer, and Videotron. At Videotron, the largest cable modem provider in Canada, he built the first Network Monitoring System for Docsis cable modem. At Fast Search & Transfer he built key components for their Semantic Web search solution.

http://calistream.com

• CaliStream: Honu as a service
• Honu, RiotGames, Technical director Data Service
• Honu, Netflix, Big Data Infrastructure, Lead Architect
• Chukwa Yahoo!, Lead Architect

• Big Data Analysis
• Hadoop - Map/Reduce - Hive/Pig
• HBase/Cassandra
• Entity extraction
• Categorization/Classification

Strong emphasis on software engineering driven by a full development cycle, including user requirements, system specification, architecture, design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment and maintenance