Alan Gates
Hortonworks
Co-founder and Architect
Alan is a founder of Hortonworks and an original member of the engineering team that took Pig from a Yahoo! Labs research project to a successful Apache open source project. Alan has done extensive work in Hive, including adding ACID transactions. Alan has a BS in Mathematics from Oregon State University and a MA in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is also the author of Programming Pig, a book from O'Reilly Press.