He is an Accumulo committer and PMC member. Before coming to Cloudera, Bill worked for fifteen years as a software engineer designing and developing middleware, security, and analytic systems for the Department of Defense. He was born and raised in New Jersey and knows his exits exactly. He currently resides on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland with his wife and two daughters. His hobbies include video games, running poorly, Eastern philosophy, and collecting Transformers… the robot kind.