Just as technologies, processes, and people have to scale with a company’s growth, what are the changes that are required as a data science team scales? This panel of experts will discuss, what works, what doesn't and what to watch for as a company scales its data science teams.
Dr. Amr Awadallah is co-founder and CTO of Cloudera, Inc., where he is responsible for all engineering efforts, from product development to release, for both the open source projects and Cloudera’s proprietary management software. Prior to Cloudera, Awadallah served as vice president of engineering at Yahoo! and led a team that used Apache Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across many of Yahoo!’s online services. He co-founded the startup VivaSmart at Stanford in 1999; it was acquired by Yahoo! in 2000. Awadallah holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Dr. DJ Patil is a data scientist in residence at Greylock Partners. Previously, he was the chief product officer at Color and the chief scientist and head of the analytics and data teams at LinkedIn. At LinkedIn, Patil was responsible for all analytics projects including reporting and web analytics, as well as products on the site that leverage LinkedIn's unique data set.
Before joining LinkedIn, Patil was a distinguished research scientist and the director for strategy, product, and analytics of corporate architecture at eBay. He received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego and a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, in the top-ranked applied nonlinear dynamics and chaos group. In 2001, Patil joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, where he helped start a major research initiative on numerical weather prediction.
Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan is the founder and CEO of ClearStory Data. She also serves on the board of big data companies Hadapt and Lattice-Engines. Previously, Shahani-Mulligan served as chief marketing officer for Aster Data, where she led product and marketing strategy. There she created a new market category for big data analytics and drove Aster Data to a leading position within it. Aster Data was acquired by Teradata in April, 2011. Prior to Aster Data, Shahani-Mulligan was CMO of the largest business unit within HP software and was responsible for a $3+ billion software products portfolio spanning all major aspects of IT management. Prior to HP, she was CMO at Opsware, where she joined Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to re-position Loudcloud into a software company and formed Opsware in 2002, which was eventually acquired by HP for $1.65 billion; she has also held executive positions at Kiva Software, Netscape, AOL, and Totality.