Michael Ernest is a Senior Learning Architect at Cloudera. Michael has also worked as a Technical Marketing Manager at Confluent, a Director of Technology Alliances at Dataiku, and a Solutions Architect at Okera. Michael is the author of several books, including "Hadoop 2 Quick-Start Guide" and "Apache Hadoop YARN".
Michael Ernest has a BA in English from University of California, Davis. Michael also has an MA in English from Kent State University. Currently, they are completing their doctoral studies in English at Claremont Graduate University. In addition, they have various certifications, including: an Intro to Data Ethics certification from University of San Francisco, a Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCAD) certification from Cloudera, a Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (CCAH) certification from Cloudera, an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Michael also has Dataiku Developer, Dataiku Advanced Designer, Dataiku ML Practitioner, and Dataiku Core Designer certifications from Dataiku.