Andy has spent the past 15 years focused on supporting and building large scale, high performance data platform solutions. From humble beginnings as an escalations engineer at pre-IPO Isilon, to leading a team of technical Ninjas at MapR, he’s consistently been in the frontlines solving some of the toughest challenges that customers face when implementing Big Data Analytics and next-gen AI solutions. Andy now serves as Vast Data’s Field CTO, helping customers build, deploy, and scale some of the world’s largest and most demanding computing environments.