Joey is currently Director of Federal Field Technical Services at Cloudera where he oversees the public sector Professional Services and Systems Engineering teams. He was previously a Principal Solutions Architect where he helped customers to design, develop, and deploy production Hadoop applications and clusters. When needed, he has also filled in for Cloudera's support and training teams and has taught Cloudera's administrator and Apache HBase courses.Joey's background is in building and deploying secure data processing applications, with the last 5 years focused on Hadoop-based applications. In the past, he has worked on resource constrained data processing, a clustered implementation of… the Snort intrusion detection system, and built a distributed index system on Hadoop when he worked for NSA (where Security was our middle name).