Rindra Ramamonjison is a big data engineer at SAP Canada. He writes Scala and Javascript by day, and delights in Erlang and Elm by night. He has over 10 years of experience in enterprise software and telecom industry. While completing a PhD from the University of British Columbia, he has published his research on distributed wireless networks to top IEEE journals. Rindra’s principal interests are machine learning, functional programming and distributed systems. He also organizes both Elm programming and Apache Spark Meetups in beautiful Vancouver. When away from a laptop, he enjoys the outdoors with his young family.