Mentor list and testimonials

Project Main Mentors	Project

Project Main Mentors	Project
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 Implement conditional clean-up after Regression Test
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.	Adding dataset support to the HPCC Systems Wasm plugin Extending the wasm wit interface for HPCC Systems
Jack Del Vecchio Jack Del Vecchio is a graduate from Miami University with a degree in Computer Engineering. He has a passion for software development and exploring new technologies. Jack started out at LexisNexis as an intern developing the MongoDB plugin allowing ECL developers to interact with an external database and access their data stored in MongoDB. Since his internship, Jack has worked full-time developing the Parquet Plugin and contributing to various improvements to the HPCC Systems platform	Test suite for the HPCC Systems Parquet plugin
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
Godji 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.	HPCC Systems Terraform CI with GitHub Actions
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.	System self health check
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.	Provide SELinux Policies for the HPCC Systems platform installation on Linux platforms
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