aige Roberts has worked as an engineer, trainer, support technician,
technical writer, marketer, product manager, and a consultant in the last
25 years. She has built data engineering pipelines and architectures,
documented and tested open source analytics implementations, worked with
different industries, and questioned a lot of assumptions. She's worked for
companies like Pervasive, the Bloor Group, Actian, Hortonworks, Syncsort,
Vertica, and now, GridGain. She contributed to "97 Things Every Data
Engineer Should Know," and co-authored "Accelerate Machine Learning with a
Unified Analytics Architecture" and "Up and Running with Aerospike" from
O'Reilly publishing. She promotes understanding of distributed data
processing, high scale data engineering architecture, real time data
processing, and how the analytics revolution is changing the world. In her
free time, she's been known to hurl axes, pull a bow, and write fantasy
books under her maiden name, Paige E. Ewing.