Roman Shaposhnik

Roman Shaposhnik is a Director of Open Source @Pivotal. He is a member of Apache Software Foundation, committer on Apache Hadoop, founder of Apache Bigtop and a man behind ODPi curtain. He has been involved in Open Source for more than a decade and has hacked projects ranging from Linux kernel to the flagship multimedia library FFmpeg. He grew up in Sun micro and was part of open sourcing of Solaris and Java. At Pivotal he was leading an overall open source effort of Pivotal Data products.