About the Reviewers

Erin Paciorkowski studied computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a National Merit Scholar. She has worked in Java development for the Department of Defense for over 8 years and is also a graduate teaching assistant for the Georgia Tech Online Masters of Computer Science program. She is a certified scrum master and holds Security+, Project+, and ITIL Foundation certifications. She was a Grace Hopper Celebration Scholar in 2016. Her interests include data analysis and information security.

Alexey Zinoviev is a lead engineer and Java and big data trainer at EPAM Systems, with a focus on Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Java concurrency, and JVM internals. He has deep expertise in machine learning, large graph processing, and the development of distributed scalable Java applications. You can follow him at @zaleslaw or https://github.com/zaleslaw.

Currently, he's working on a Spark Tutorial at https://github.com/zaleslaw/Spark-Tutorial and on an Open GitBook about Spark (in Russian) at https://zaleslaw.gitbooks.io/data-processing-book/content/.