Catalin Zamfir

Catalin is a seasoned software & systems architect with much of his career-life designing, building or mentoring for the field of Big Data and High Performance Computing. Passionate about distributed systems principles and paradigms and with 15 years of software and system engineering experience, he’s aiming now to tame and teach the fine art of building evolutionary architectures. Open-source supporter, bug finder and contributor on a few Big Data projects (Cassandra, Avro, Spark). When asked about the field of architecture in general, he often enjoys quoting W. Richard Steven’s explanation of why the Internet works so well today: “Designing an architecture is more art than science…”