About the Reviewers

Mark Kerzner holds degrees in Law, Math, and Computer Science. He has been designing software for many years and Hadoop-based systems since 2008. He is the President of SHMsoft, a provider of Hadoop applications for various verticals, and a co-author of the Hadoop illuminated book/project. He has authored and co-authored books and patents.

Nitin Pawar started his career as a Release Engineer and Tools Developer, then moved into different roles such as operations, solutions engineering, process engineering, and Big Data analytics. Currently, he is working as a Big Data System Architect, and trying to solve problems related to customer success management. He has mainly been working with technologies revolving around the first generation Hadoop ecosystem.