Bio

Paul Baclace is a Java consultant with over 20 years of software engineering experience focused on infrastructure and tools, and utilizing Java since 1996. He started working on Nutch/Hadoop at Internet Archive with Doug Cutting in 2005, and helped AT&Tinteractive get up to speed with Hadoop. He recently founded the Metazeta Cluster project which makes Hadoop, Hive, and HBase clusters available on-demand. Clients include Third Eye Consulting, GroupAngle, Euclid, Inc. (sensor analysis using Hadoop and Cascading), the Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab BuddyBuzz project for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) reading on cell phones, Acuitus.com, Stata Labs (bought by Yahoo), Dorado.com, Interwoven.com, and Agorics, Inc.

Paul Baclace has also held fulltime positions: from 2006-2008, he was Dir. of Engineering at the click-to-call VoIP startup jaxtr. From 1999-2001, he was VP of Engineering at Step.com, a vertical service provider of US stock market research for Japan (main client is Dow Jones Japan), where he led the development of a scalable, n-tier, investment information collection and presentation system featuring gigabytes of numeric and textual content. In 1997, Paul co-founded Intelligenesis/Webmind Inc. where he created a distributed, semantic network application platform.

Earlier, Paul Baclace was at Sun Microsystems where he co-architected the next generation multi-language debugger; in the advanced technology group at Autodesk he co-developed and later managed the project to create a client-side toolkit for Xanadu, and also created an agent-based and collaborative information filter/recommendation engine; at Excite.com he led the development of the Excite Channel Guide, the flagship demo of Marimba's Castanet product and helped develop Excite NewsTracker. Paul has a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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