Michael Lv works for Pivotal as a senior staff and currently is focussing on big data platform and frameworks. Michael has built Pivotal HD(then called Greenplum HD) Hadoop distribution from the beginning and led the team shipped half dozen product releases. Before joining Pivotal in early 2011, Michael worked within EMC CTO office as an architect and team lead focusing on virtualized data center(aka private cloud), cloud platform and big data. Prior to EMC, Michael has worked for IBM, BEA, Tandem and as a research staff at UIUC. Michael has a master degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Michael has organized many big data and Hadoop User Group meetups in local community and is regular speaker at those events and other forums.