Jay is a hands-on architect within Data Infrastructure & Services at eBay. He architects data storage behind eBay.com, which can scale up to hundred billion database calls every day. He is currently leading the evaluation of NoSQL and adoption of Cassandra for various eBay projects, and is developing NoSQL knowledge bases and best practices. In the not too distant past, he built the first version of eBay’s cloud manager platform. He also developed various social apps as well as SOA and Hadoop prototypes. Before joining eBay, Jay worked on various projects at IBM, and built a Unified Messaging System at a telecom startup. Jay holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University, and is currently learning cool machine learning techniques at Stanford.