About the Author

Danil Zburivsky is a database professional with a focus on open source technologies. Danil started his career as a MySQL database administrator and is currently working as a consultant at Pythian, a global data infrastructure management company. At Pythian, Danil was involved in building a number of Hadoop clusters for customers in financial, entertainment, and communication sectors.

Danil's other interests include writing fun things in Python, robotics, and machine learning. He is also a regular speaker at various industrial events.