Wampler

Dean Wampler is an expert in data engineering for scalable streaming data systems and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is a principal software engineer at Domino Data Lab. Previously he worked at Anyscale and Lightbend, where he worked on scalable machine learning with Ray and distributed streaming data systems with Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and other tools. Besides Programming Scala, Dean is also the author of What Is Ray?, Distributed Computing Made Simple, Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications, and Functional Programming for Java Developers, as well as the coauthor of Programming Hive, all from O'Reilly. He is a contributor to several open source projects and a frequent conference speaker, and he co-organizes several conferences around the world and several user groups in Chicago. Dean has a PhD in physics from the University of Washington. Find Dean on Twitter: @deanwampler.