Jesse Anderson __CreativeEngineer, CEO

Jesse Anderson, a Creative Engineer & CEO of Smoking Hand LLC. I train companies ranging from startups to Fortune on Big Data. This includes training on cutting edge technology like Apache Kafka, Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. I have taught thousands of students the skills to become Data Engineers. I am widely regarded as an expert in the field and his novel teaching practices. I'm published on O’Reilly and Pragmatic Programmers. I have been covered in prestigious publications such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, NPR, Engadget, and Wired. I've spoken at Strata, OSCON, HBaseCon and other Big Data conferences. I've guest lectured at various universities.