Slim Baltagi - Capital One
Slim Baltagi is director of Big Data engineering at Capital One Financial Corporation in Chicago.
He has more than 17 years of IT and business experience and has spent the last four years of his life hadooping and more recently sparking and flinking! He has worked on more than a dozen Big Data projects as a solution architect. He enjoys evangelizing Big Data technologies by speaking at Big Data events and maintaining a blog and a Knowledge Base on many Apache projects: Hadoop, Spark, Flink.
With some fellow squirrels, Slim also runs the Chicago Apache Flink Meetup and the Washington DC Area Apache Flink Meetup!