Dr. Mark Pollack has worked on Big Data solutions in High Energy Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory and then moved to the financial services industry as a technical lead or architect for front office trading systems.Always interested in best practices and improving the software development process, Mark has been a core Spring (Java) developer since 2003 and founded its Microsoft counterpart, Spring.NET, in 2004.Mark now leads the Spring Data project that aims to simplify application development with new data technologies around Big Data and NoSQL databases.