He started as a large scale user of Lucene and Hadoop at Thomson Learning in 2006. He joined Yahoo! in 2007 and built couple of generations of data management for Hadoop at internet scale. He then joined Hortonworks in 2011 and led the data integration efforts. He worked with the community and created a data management solution, Apache Falcon in 2013 and then a data governance solution, Apache Atlas in 2015.