Jason works at Datastax as a senior Big Data engineer architecting, developing and supporting the Datastax Enterprise product line which includes Solr integrated with Cassandra. His career has involved an array of technologies including search, Hadoop, Hive, mobile phones, cryptography, and natural language processing. Jason has been developing solutions with Lucene and Solr for more than 7 years and is a co-author of 'Programming Hive' and 'Lucene and Solr: The Definitive Guide' from O'Reilly. Jason frequently gives tutorials and speaks at conferences such as Strata, Cassandra Summit, ApacheCon and others.