Andy Petrella

Andy is a mathematician turned into a distributed computing entrepreneur.

Besides being a Scala/Spark trainer. Andy also participated in many projects built using spark, cassandra, and other distributed technologies, in various fields including Geospatial, IoT, Automotive and Smart cities projects.

He is the creator of the Spark Notebook (https://github.com/andypetrella/spark-notebook), the only reactive and fully Scala notebook for Apache Spark.

In 2015, Xavier Tordoir and Andy founded Data Fellas (http://data-fellas.guru) working on:

* the Distributed Data Science toolkit, Shar3;

* the Distributed Genomics product, Med@Scale.

Since 2015, Andy is a member of program committee of the O’Reilly Strata events.