Hien Luu is a technical lead of the Data Services Platform team at LinkedIn where he focuses on building big data infrastructure and big data applications. He loves working with big data technologies and recently became a contributor of Apache Pig project. He enjoys teaching and is currently an instructor of the Hadoop: Big Data Processing course at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension school. He has given presentations at various conferences and user groups like Hadoop Summit 2013, JavaOne, Silicon Valley CodeCamp and SVForm Software & Architecture user group.