An Apache Cassandra committer and PMC member, Gary Dusbabek is a life-long programmer specializing in distributed systems.  His past experience includes working with large-scale text and image indexes in the newspaper industry and high-volume advertisement booking software.  Recent work at Rackspace includes working on Cassandra full-time and being a founding member of the Cloud Monitoring team.  Gary currently works on the Cloud Metrics team that created the open source Blueflood metrics engine.