John DesJardins is Chief Technology Officer at Hazelcast, where he leads product innovation and champions adoption of ultra-fast in-memory computing platform. His expertise in large-scale computing spans Machine Learning, Microservices, Big Data, Internet of Things, and Cloud. He is an active writer and speaker. John brings over 25 years of experience in architecting and implementing global scale computing solutions with top Global 2000 companies while at Hazelcast, Cloudera, Software AG, and webMethods. He holds a BS in Economics from George Mason University, where he first built predictive models, long before that was considered cool.