Derek Beauregard is a technologist who has worked in the Software/IT industry for the past 10+ years with roles - across the spectrum - in Field Sales (Sales Engineer), Consulting, and Engineering.  He has worked extensively with Java and Spring, across multiple industries, and has been recently focusing on all things Hadoop.  He is currently working as a Sales Engineer at Pivotal, helping Pivotal's customers with Application Modernization, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Big/Fast/Flexible data.  Derek is based out of Denver, CO.