Milind Bhandarkar was the founding member of the team at Yahoo! that took Apache Hadoop from 20-node prototype to datacenter-scale production system. Parallel programming languages and paradigms has been his area of focus for over 20 years. He worked at several HPC companies, Yahoo! and Linkedin. Milind was the Chief Architect at Greenplum Labs, a division of EMC & Chief Scientist at Pivotal before founding Ampool. Milind holds his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Univ Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.