HPCC Systems 10 Year Open Source Anniversary Discussion with Bahar Fardanian

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In this episode, Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, has a chat with Bahar Fardanian, Technology Evangelist, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, whose role was specifically created to support our growing open source HPCC Systems community.

Bahar begins by sharing how her career evolved and her love of big data by working in healthcare analytics shortly after graduating with her Masters degree. She was hooked and knew this is where she wanted to focus her career! After attending a career fair looking for companies who were in the big data industry, she landed her first role with LexisNexis Risk Solutions on the data scoring team. Leveraging all the material found on the HPCC Systems website, she became very familiar with the platform and infrastructure prior to her first interview. It wasn’t too long until Bahar became one of our key HPCC Systems ambassadors working alongside many of our community members helping them with their big data projects. Seeing how this seemed to be a perfect fit with her passion, skills and influence, she landed a new role as a technology evangelist. This unique role also has a special focus on supporting our academic community where she has the opportunity to run hackathons, workshops - and new this year, she is teaching her very first big data course at her alma-mater, Kennesaw State University. She shares that it is an amazing experience to help students who start out with very little knowledge of big data, to seeing them now solve real-world problems as a result from her mentorship and teaching.

The benefit of having a data lake platform as open source allows these students to experience industry focused problems to ramp up their skills so they can be work-ready upon graduation. She looks forward to continuing to work with different universities and schools in the coming year. Bahar uses her own success story when speaking to students, especially females, and encourages them to follow their passion to find a job that allows them to do what they love. Everybody can do this! What a great feeling to know that the college student who stumbled across the LexisNexis booth at a Career Fair a few years ago, would now be the one at the “other side of the table”, evangelizing about the HPCC Systems platform and giving students the same opportunities to find their love with big data!