Sean Owen

Sean Owen is director of data science at Cloudera in London. Before Cloudera, he founded Myrrix Ltd (now the Oryx project) to commercialize large-scale real-time recommender systems on Hadoop. He is an Apache Spark committer and is a co-author of "Advanced Analytics on Spark". He was a committer and VP for Apache Mahout, and co-author of Mahout in Action. Previously, Sean was a senior engineer at Google. He holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Harvard University.