Paul Dix is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups and for large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley’s. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 7,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.
Nga Tran is a staff software engineer at InfluxData and a member of the company’s IOx team, which is building the next-generation time series storage engine for InfluxDB. Before InfluxData, Nga worked at Vertica Systems where she was one of the key engineers who built the query optimizer for Vertica and later ran Vertica’s engineering team. In her spare time, Nga enjoys writing and posting materials for building distributed databases on her blog.
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