About Me
I'm Nathan Marz. I was the Lead Engineer at BackType before BackType was acquired by Twitter in July of 2011. BackType formed a new team within Twitter and I've continued in my role as lead engineer.
A longtime Java, Ruby, and Python hacker, I now code primarily in Clojure. Clojure is a joy to use and has been a huge boon to my productivity.
I'm a strong believer in the power of open source and have authored a few major open source projects. Cascalog is a high level abstraction for using MapReduce from Clojure and has a strong user community spanning many companies. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system and is the most watched Java, Scala, or Clojure project on GitHub. You can find more of my open source work on my GitHub page.
I'm working on a book called Big Data: principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems for Manning Publications. The early access edition is available here.
I'm always happy to give advice or connect with people doing interesting work. I welcome you to contact me directly at nathan.marz@gmail.com.