Mohammad Islam

Bio

Mohammad Kamrul Islam is currently working at Uber in their Data Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer. Previously, he worked at Linkedin for more than two years as a Staff Software Engineer in their Hadoop development team. Before that, he worked at Yahoo! for nearly five years as an Oozie architect/technical lead. His fingerprints can be found all over Oozie and is a respected voice in the Oozie community. He has been intimately involved with the Apache Hadoop ecosystem since 2009. Mohammad has a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a specialization in parallel job scheduling from Ohio State University. He received his MSCS degree from Wright State University, Ohio and BSCS from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He is a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of both Apache Oozie and Apache TEZ and frequently contributes to Apache YARN/MapReduce and Apache Hive. He was elected as the PMC chair and Vice-President of Oozie as part of the Apache Software Foundation from 2013 through 2015.