Tom Hanlon is currently an instructor at Cloudera where he delivers courses on the wonders of the hadoop ecosystem.

Before beginning his relationship with hadoop and large distributed data, he had a happy and lengthy relationship with MySQL with a focus on web operations.

He has been a trainer for MySQL, Sun , Percona.

Cloudera offers enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software package. We enhance the storage and processing technologies originally developed by the world’s biggest Web companies, allowing our growing list of global customers to use Hadoop to solve problems and achieve their particular business goals.

Tom is teaching Intro to Hadoop and Advanced Hadoop at Ohio LinuxFest Institute 2012.