Astute readers of this blog have probably noticed a regular new author – we are hugely excited to introduce Anton Parkhomenko to the Snowplow team!
Anton joined us as a Data Engineering intern this summer to launch our new Schema Guru project. Anton was already an experienced software engineer; for him the Snowplow internship was about getting his first professional experience in Scala and Functional Programming, plus gaining exposure to Big Data technologies and open source project practices.
After a highly successful internship, which saw the release of Schema Guru versions 0.1.0 thru 0.3.0, we were delighted to make Anton an offer to join the Snowplow Data Engineering team full-time.
Since then, Anton has worked on quite a variety of key releases, including:
- The Snowplow Scala Tracker, version 0.2.0
- Another Schema Guru release, 0.4.0, with Apache Spark support
- The release of Scala Weather, and now Snowplow R74 which leverages this in the Weather Enrichment
Currently Anton is working on all-new event enrichments, which promise to make Snowplow an ever-more flexible platform for your event analytics. Watch this space!
Welcome to the team Anton!
