Dan McClary currently serves as Senior Principal Product Manager for Big Data and Hadoop at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle he served as Director of Business Intelligence at Red Robot Labs in Palo Alto, CA. He previously was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute where his research in Complex Systems focused on applying Hadoop to large scale graph problems. Dan received his PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University, where his work centered on adaptive optimization of mobile and ad hoc networks. He holds an MS in Computer Science focused on hard real-time schedulability in distributed systems and was founder of imgSurf, a biometrics and electronic medical record company. Dan contributes to open source projects such as Tinkerpop Blueprints and Apache Spark.