Ryan Blue is the original creator of Apache Iceberg and currently serves as a member of the technical staff at Databricks. They co-founded and became CEO of Tabular from 2021 to 2024. Previously, Ryan worked at Netflix as a Senior Software Engineer from 2016 to 2021, and at Cloudera as a software engineer, where they were the technical lead for data formats from 2013 to 2016. Additionally, they held leadership roles at The Apache Software Foundation, including Vice President of both Apache Avro and Apache Iceberg. Ryan earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Idaho from 2002 to 2005 and led a team at the National Security Agency that developed visualization and analysis tools for large datasets from 2005 to 2013.
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