As Director of Engineering for Pythian Kick AaaS product, Danil leads a team of big data architects and data scientists that help customers worldwide to achieve their most ambitious goals when it comes to large scale data platforms. He is recognized for his expertise in architecting, and building and supporting large mission-critical data platforms using MySQL, Hadoop and MongoDB. Danil is a popular speaker at industry events, and has authored a book titled Hadoop Cluster Deployment.