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Attila Vamos | |
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 |
Kevin Wang
Tim Humphrey
Tim has been with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group for more than 30 years. His undergraduate degree is in mathematics and both his master’s and PhD work are in computer science. Until 2014, he worked as a research scientist but is now contributing to the Machine Learning Library and getting the HPCC System platform to perform well in a Cloud environment, such as Amazon’s AWS.
Last year, Tim mentored a student working on a machine learning project. Find out about Sarthak Jain's project to add new statistics to the Linear and Logistic Regression Module. This year, Tim will help us to evaluate proposals again and he will also be a back up mentor for the machine learning projects we are offering.
Jack Del Vecchio | |
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. |
Anthony Fishbeck
Anthony has been with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group for more than 15 years. He was the original architect of the ESP platform and ESDL interfaces, and has since worked on several HPCC Systems components. He’s been adding JSON and REST support throughout the HPCC Systems platform, and he has begun work on abstracting ROXIE’s protocol implementation and making them “pluggable”. He has an affinity for the implementation of standards and protocols, and is the lead mentor for adding “Internet of Things” protocols to ROXIE.
Implement an IOT pluggable protocol for ROXIE
Continuous Integration of roxie query / data deployments using Jenkins
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 AlgorithmsGodji Fortil Godji Fortil works as a software engineer III in the HPCC Systems platform team. He primarily works on testing and cloud infrastructure for the HPCC Systems platform. Godji has extensive experience coding in Terraform having deployed his first application in OpenStack over two years ago. He also has been an internship mentor since he joined the company. This year, his mentorship was about cost management and optimization for the HPCC Systems cloud native platform. Next year, Godji hopes to attend Georgia Tech University for a master’s in computing systems. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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 |