Nong co-founded Okera in 2016. Prior to that, he led performance engineering for Spark core and SparkSQL at Databricks. Before Databricks, he served as the tech lead for the Impala project at Cloudera. Nong is also one of the original authors of the Apache Parquet project. He has a bachelor’s in computer science from Brown University.
As I prepared to write this blog about Okera’s latest release, it seemed almost disingenuous not to acknowledge all the things that have changed in our world – and continue to change almost every day – due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the last three years, we’ve helped our customers build and manage their data lakes. Some of them have just started their data lake journey, while others have large data lake environments with complex datasets that contain sensitive information.