John DesJardins

CTO of Hazelcast

John DesJardins is Chief Technology Officer at Hazelcast, setting technology strategy for the Real-time Intelligent Applications Platform. His expertise in large scale computing spans Big Data, Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Cloud. He is an active speaker and writer. John brings over 25 years of experience in architecting and implementing global scale computing solutions with top Global 2000 companies 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.