I'm a programmer and entrepreneur living in Hawaii. I'm passionate about programming languages, databases, and reducing the complexity of software development.
In 2011 I created and open-sourced the Apache Storm project. It pioneered a new category of open source: scalable stream processing with strong data processing guarantees. Storm is one of the world's most popular stream processors and has been adopted by many of the world's largest companies, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, Alibaba, Taobao, WebMD, Spotify, Yelp, and many more. In 2015 I published a book about the theoretical foundation of building large-scale data systems.
In 2013, I founded Red Planet Labs with the goal of fundamentally changing the economics of software development. After a long 5+ year research phase on my own, I raised a seed round and built the core team.