Paige Roberts has worked as an engineer, trainer, support technician, technical writer, marketer, product manager, and a consultant in the last 25 years. She has built data engineering pipelines and architectures, documented and tested open source analytics implementations, spun up Hadoop clusters, picked the brains of stars in data analytics, worked in different industries, and questioned a lot of assumptions. Paige has worked for companies like Pervasive, the Bloor Group, Actian, Hortonworks, Syncsort, and Vertica. Now, she promotes understanding of Vertica, distributed data processing, open source, large-scale data engineering architecture, and how the analytics revolution is changing the world.