HPCC Systems 10 Year Open Source Anniversary Discussion with Lili Xu and Yash Mishra

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In this next episode of the HPCC Systems 10 year anniversary series, Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, interviews two members from our academic community – who are now employees. Flavio welcomes Lili Xu and Yash Mishra, both who joined our community from Clemson University and also participated in our HPCC Systems internship program. Lili begins by sharing how she learned about HPCC Systems during her first PhD year through the Clemson University DICE lab managed by Dr Amy Apon. Her first taste of ECL was reading the ECL Programmers Guide which got her hooked to learn more about the platform. Today, you can see her mark in many projects including Machine Learning, NLP, DBSCAN, and her latest development, HSQL – a new language allowing SQL developers to easily work with HPCC Systems without ECL knowledge. Lili also shares her involvement as a mentor now, and how she enjoys working with students to learn HPCC Systems through facilitating workshops, hackathons and other events.

Yash has a similar story, also being part of the DICE lab, but learning about HPCC Systems through a cloud computing architecture class taught by Dr Apon. He was intrigued with the different aspects HPCC Systems could interact with the cloud. Seeing this was a major direction for our roadmap, Yash landed an internship working on leveraging Azure with HPCC Systems. He talks about his experience from working on the project and using Kubernetes to help fine-tune performance across the environment, which also helps with cost assessment for anyone who is venturing into the cloud native journey. Yash concludes by sharing what his new role as a Software Engineer on the MVR team entails and looks forward to the new challenges ahead.

Both Lili and Yash have made many contributions to the platform and will always be key members of the HPCC Systems community, and now, we are honored to have them as colleagues!