Roman Shaposhnik is the Director of Open Source Strategy at Pivotal Software, Inc., and VP of Technology for ODPi at The Linux Foundation. He is a committer on Apache Hadoop, co-creator of Apache Bigtop, and contributor to various other Hadoop ecosystem projects. He is also an ASF member and a former Chair of Apache Incubator. In his copious free time, he managed to co-author "Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph". Roman has been involved in Open Source software for more than a decade and hacked projects ranging from the Linux kernel to the FFmpeg multimedia library.