SPEAKER PROFILE

Patrick McFadin is Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra at DataStax. He is one of the world's leading experts in Apache Cassandra and data-modelling techniques. Patrick has helped build some of the largest and most exciting deployments of Apache Cassandra in production. Prior to DataStax, he was chief architect at Hobsons, an education services company. There, Patrick spoke often on web application design and performance.