Aaron has built multiple, large-scale, big data systems that are used by the intelligence,

defense, finance, and healthcare industries. He has a passion for delivering products that are

transformative, based on close customer collaboration and iterative development.

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Aaron spent five years as a researcher for the National Security Agency (NSA) where he

developed and deployed into operations dozens of advanced analytical techniques. He is also

the founder of Apache Accumulo, a scalable and secure data store on top of Apache Hadoop

and the author of the O’Reilly book, Accumulo: Application Development, Table Design, and

Best Practices. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the

University of Maryland College Park.'

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