Eugene.Ciurana

Eugene Ciurana is an open source contributor and evangelist, entrepreneur, and author based in Moscow and San Francisco who specializes in agile development of robust, highly scalable systems. He's led the design and implementation of mission-critical, high performance, and Big Data systems for many industry leading organizations such as Summly, Walmart.com, AT&T, LeapFrog Enterprises, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Badoo, Oracle, Bank of America, National Oilwell Varco, IBM, and various startups in Russia, the Ukraine, western Europe, Japan, and Silicon Valley. As an engineering senior principal at Yahoo, Inc. he's leading the design and development of a highly scalable semantic web system to feed a new generation of mobile and web applications. Eugene is often found mentoring other developers in the ##java, #python, #awk, #R, #iphonedev, and #security channels on Freenode IRC under the /nick pr3d4t0r.