I recently finished up a Phd hacking bioinformatics mashups on the JVM. then i was a big data engineer at peerindex. now im a bigdata engineer at red hat.
blog: http://jayunit100.blogspot.com.
open-source:
http://writequit.org/papers/files/RudolF.pdf
publications : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jay_Vyas/publications/?ev=prf_pubs_p2