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    Ari Gesher
    Engineering Ambassador

    Ari Gesher is a senior engineer and Engineering Ambassador at Palantir Technologies. At Palantir Technologies, Ari has split his time between working as a backend engineer on Palantir’s analysis platform, thinking and writing about Palantir’s vision for human-driven information data systems, and moonlighting on Palantir’s Philanthropic engineering team. His current role involves understanding and discussing Palantir’s role in the world of analytics, big data, and the future of technology. An alumnus of the University of Illinois computer science department, Ari has worked in the software industry for the past fifteen years, including a stint as the lead engineer for the SourceForge.net open source software archive.

    Sessions

    Inverting 80/20: Beyond Bespoke Big Data

    The past decade has seen a proliferation of standalone-tools and technology for large scale data processing. While powerful and transformational, the onus is still on the implementer to do most of the work – 80% of the time is spent on setting up the technology, leaving only a fraction to work on the actual problem at hand. More…