Joel Baxter is an engineer at BlueData, where he focuses on virtualization, containers, and Hadoop-related technologies to build an infrastructure platform for big data analytics. His background is in the provisioning and configuration of virtual compute, storage, and networking to serve the needs of application clusters. Before joining BlueData, Joel did a 9-year tour at VMware on the vCenter and vSphere teams, developing the management layer for vMotion, the vSphere Distributed Switch, and policy-based storage management and related vSphere features such as Virtual SAN.
