HPCC Systems 10 Year Open Source Anniversary Discussion with Stuart Ort and Kunal Aswani

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Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, kicks off the first of this mini-series as part of the 10 Year Anniversary podcast series featuring the platform team supporting HPCC Systems. In this episode, Flavio welcomes his first two guests, Stuart “Stu” Ort, Sr Director Software Engineering, and Kunal Aswani, Software Engineer III, both also with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group. Having been with the company for 20 years now, Stu has been involved in a variety of roles from the early days through following the open source movement, so has experience from both sides with supporting internal users as well as the wider open community. He shares how changes to accommodate the open source community not only positively impacted the platform, but also career growth across his team. Stu explains the methods and approaches that were once used to serve the internal community had to adapt in order to serve a diverse and expanded userbase. He looked at this as an opportunity to improve and enhance a number of the responsibilities his team owns with support, security, documentation, installation practices and more.

Joining the team in 2014, a few years after going open source, Kunal’s main focus is working on the frontend of ECL Watch. His involvement and contributions has helped ECL Watch grow from a simple webpage to a more rich and robust web browser interface giving the users a visual story of their environment performance. Kunal prides himself on putting the user first and working to incorporate additional features that give users what they want in the most optimal way. This is why you can also find Kunal interacting with our users, serving as one of our key ambassadors in events, poster competitions and engaging with our wider external community.

These talented technologists forming the platform team are the early adopters of new technology and get to work on the interoperability of many different tools with HPCC Systems. More recently, the move to the cloud is at the top of the roadmap with the team exploring, testing and configuring different methods to make your clustering environment in the cloud at its best. The HPCC Systems platform team is excited to sit on the front lines of working with different operating systems, containers and other bleeding edge technology to bring HPCC Systems into the next generation! Check back for additional episodes coming soon featuring this team!