Philip (flip) Kromer is the founder and CTO at Infochimps.com, a big data platform that makes acquiring, storing and analyzing massive data streams transformatively easier. I enjoy Bowling, Scrabble, working on old cars or new wood, and rooting for the Red Sox.
Graduate School, Dept. of Physics - University of Texas at Austin, 2001-2007 Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science - Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 1992-1996
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Core committer for Wukong, the leading ruby library for Hadoop
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Core committer for Ironfan, a framework for provisioning complex distributed systems in the cloud or data center.
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Wrote the most widely-used cookbook for deploying hadoop clusters using Chef
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Contributed chapter to The Definitive Guide to Hadoop by Tom White