Dean Wampler (@deanwampler) is an expert in streaming data systems, focusing on applications of ML/AI. He is Head of Evangelism at Anyscale.io, which is focused on distributed Python for ML/AI. Previously, he was an engineering VP at Lightbend, where he led the development of Lightbend CloudFlow, an integrated system for building and running streaming data applications with Akka Streams, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Apache Kafka. Dean is the author of Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications, Programming Scala, Functional Programming for Java Developers, and the coauthor of Programming Hive, all from O'Reilly. He's a contributor to several open source projects. A frequent Strata Data Conference speaker, he's also the co-organizer of several conferences around the world and several user groups in Chicago. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington.
