Dean Wampler is an expert in data systems and author of several books. He leads engineering teams at IBM Research focused on AI operations ("AIOps") and hybrid cloud technologies.

Dean writes on various topics at his blog. He contributes to several open source projects and speaks at many technology conferences and user groups. Dean has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington.

Check out some of Dean’s past talks:

• GOTO Chicago 2020 - Ray: A System for Distributed Applications
• GOTO Chicago 2018 - Bash and All That; Why Ancient *NIX Tools Are Still Essential

A few of Dean’s books:

• Programming Scala, Third Edition
• What Is Ray
• Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications