Mladen Kovacevic

Mladen Kovacevic comes from a development background in RDBMS technology, and sees Kudu as a game changer in the Hadoop ecosystem. He has presented Kudu at several local meetups, presented on the state of Spark on Kudu during its beta while providng feedback early enough to ensure Spark with Kudu is a first-class citizen at its launch. He is a contributor to Apache Kudu and Kite SDK projects, and works as a Solutions Architect at Cloudera. Mladen's experience includes years of RDBMS engine development, systems optimization, performance and architecture, including optimizing Hadoop on the Power 8 platform while developing IBM's Big SQL technology.