Mentor list and testimonials

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Attila Vamos

Attila joined the HPCC Systems team having worked at Nokia previously doing Symbian OS Kernel development work. Attila is becoming our expert in resolving issues affecting the HPCC Systems DFU server which controls the transfer of files and data between machines in an HPCC Systems environment. He has improved the stability and performance of file spray especially for large XML and CSV files. As a result, he is well placed to mentor the DFU spray from zip/gzip files project. He is also improving our regression suite which enables us to self-test our code before release and also works on our automated testing system.

Convert Automated Test Systems from Python2 to Python3

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Xiaoming Wang

Xiaoming Wang (Ming) is a Software Engineer and has been with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group since 2013. Ming is responsible for various HPCC Systems projects and builds as well as installation and configuration of HPCC Systems platform. He also works on several cloud solutions for HPCC Systems development, such as Instant Cloud for AWS, Cloud Formation Solution, Juju Charm, Docker/Kubernetes, and many other solutions.

HPCC Systems Storage Support With Container Storage Interface (CSI)

HPCC Systems Cloud Deployment with Various Helm Chart Configurations

Gordon Smith 

Gordon is the manager of the HPCC Systems supercomputer clients. He is a member of the HPCC Systems Core Platform team and has been a LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group employee for more than 20 years.  He is the principle developer for ECL related development tools, including the ECL IDE, ECL Extension for VS Code, ECL Watch, ECL Execution Graph Viewer and, more recently, the HPCC Visualization Framework.  

Implement ECL Pretty Print

VS Code extension for DESDL

Kevin Wang

Kevin is a Consultant Engineer for LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, where he has worked for more than 10 years. Kevin’s current contributions to the HPCC Systems project include working on the ESP component including web services and other projects. One of his roles is to help people use HPCC Systems easily and efficiently. Cluster deployment and ESP Configuration are examples of two areas on which he has worked to improve usability. Kevin is a backup mentor for the Cluster deployment with Juju Charm project.

Cluster deployment with Juju Charm

Dan Camper

Dan has been with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group since 2014 and is an Enterprise Architect in the Solutions Lab Group. He has worked for Apple as well as Dun & Bradstreet, and he ran his own custom programming shop for a decade. He's been writing software professionally for more than 40 years and has worked on a myriad of systems, using many different programming languages.

He extended the ECL Std.Date library module to include time support and also authored the Kafka plugin, which makes him perfectly placed to offer support to anyone wanting to add an interface to ECL for another language or external data store.

Additional embedded languages in ECL

Additional External Data Stores

Roger Dev

Roger is a Senior Architect working with John Holt on the Machine Learning Team.  He joined HPCC Systems from CA Technologies.  Roger has been involved in the implementation and utilization of machine learning and AI techniques for many years, and has more than 20 patents in diverse areas of software technology.

Causal Model Validation Methods

Causal Discovery Algorithms

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly is a software architect, and has been with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group since 2013. He has many years of experience in High Performance Computing at several computer manufacturers, working on numerical math libraries, High Speed Interconnects, Message Passing libraries, Accelerators and application performance.  Mark currently works on Thor and ROXIE and some of the lower level libraries of the HPCC Systems platform that have to do with networking and performance.

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Michael Gardner

Michael has been with the HPCC Systems Platform team since 2014.  His responsibilities revolve around the HPCC Systems Platform init systems, administration scripts, and project builds.  In addition to his work on the platform, Michael maintains and contributes to several HPCC Systems Java projects.  His most recent undertakings include updating the Platform to leverage systemd, and migrating the wssql project from using antlr3 to antlr4.

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Jake Smith 

Jake Smith is a Lead Architect at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group. He is one of the original HPCC Systems architects and has worked with the company for more than 20 years. Jake is the lead developer of Thor, the HPCC Systems Data Refinery Cluster, as well as a number of the other core HPCC Systems components.

Implement reference dafilesrv in other languages

Rodrigo Pastrana 

Rodrigo is a Software Architect with the HPCC Systems development team and he has earned both a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He has been with LexisNexis Risk Solutions for more than ten years, and is an active HPCC Systems contributor for more than 7 years. Rodrigo's focus has been in the design and implementation of third party technology integration. Previously he worked with IBM on enterprise level mobile device applications and voice recognition solutions.


David de Hilster

David de Hilster is a Consulting Software Engineer and has earned both a B.S. in Mathematics and a M.A. in Linguistics from The Ohio State University. His background is in natural language processing and David is one of the co-authors of the computer language NLP++, including its IDE VisualText. David has been a LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group employee since 2015 and his top responsibility is the ECL IDE, which he has been contributing to since 2016.

APIs for HPCC Systems Data Ingestion for Common Robot Sensors




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