CEO & Founder
Kensu
Andy Petrella is the CEO of Kensu, where he also gets his hands dirty in Adalog’s code. Andy is a mathematician turned distributed computing entrepreneur. Besides being a Scala/Spark trainer, Andy participated in many projects built using Spark, Cassandra, and other distributed technologies in various fields including geospatial analysis, the IoT, and automotive and smart cities projects. Andy is the creator of the Spark Notebook, the only reactive and fully Scala notebook for Apache Spark. In 2015, Andy cofounded Data Fellas with Xavier Tordoir around their product the Agile Data Science Toolkit, which facilitates the productization of data science projects and guarantees their maintainability and sustainability over time. Andy is also member of the program committee for the O’Reilly Strata, Scala eXchange, Data Science eXchange, and Devoxx events.