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San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Architect/Developer: Reactive Microservices, Java, Scala, Akka, Cassandra, Spark, Kafka and AWS Certified
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Technology / Software / Internet
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Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for Mammatus Inc mainly focusing on working with media companies, startups, and high-volume services. Rick spends most of his time implementing systems (writing code, dev, load test, architect, etc.). He teaches classes on Cassandra, Kafka, Akka, Go Lang, AWS, Scala and Spark. He is AWS certified.
"For those who aren't aware: Rick is the go-to guy if you want to know about real-world high-volume usage of Vert.x" 鈥擳im Fox creator of Vert.x.
Specializes in high-speed, in-memory, non-blocking, microservices development which often includes Cassandra, Kafka and AWS.
Recent experience with EC2 (VPC/CloudFormation/Autoscaling), DC/OS, Cons...
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