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Speakers

Jordan West

Employers on the program

  1. 2023–2025Netflix5 talks
Events7
Conferences3
Talks8
Years active2019–2025
Miles between events5,0246 in-person events · 1 country

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)
  • Cassandra Summit
  • Open Source Data Summit

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Sep 11, 2025Community Over Code North America 2025Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerContributing to Cassandra: Journeys from Newcomer to PMC
as Netflix
Interested in becoming an Apache Cassandra committer? Join our panel discussion featuring insights from new community members, recent committers, seasoned…Show less

Interested in becoming an Apache Cassandra committer? Join our panel discussion featuring insights from new community members, recent committers, seasoned contributors, and PMC members.

Oct 7, 2024Community Over Code North America 2024Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerCassandra BYOT - Bring Your Own Topic
as Netflix

Bring a topic to present and discuss with Cassandra users and contributors. Any topics related to Apache Cassandra are welcome.

Video
Oct 7, 2024Community Over Code North America 2024Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerEasy Tooling for Easy Cassandra Experimentation
as Netflix
In our talk, we introduce two new tools designed to streamline the deployment, testing, and exploration of Cassandra clusters regardless of version.…Show less

In our talk, we introduce two new tools designed to streamline the deployment, testing, and exploration of Cassandra clusters regardless of version. "easy-cass-lab" simplifies the setup of Cassandra clusters, incorporating built-in profiling utilities to generate flamegraphs and analyze system performance with eBPF, while "easy-cass-stress" facilitates the creation of workloads to test against the

Slides
Dec 12, 2023Cassandra Summit 2023Cassandra SummittalkImproving Bad Partition Handling in Apache Cassandra
as Netflix

Reading and compacting Bad Partitions have long been known to impact Cassandra performance.

Nov 15, 2023Open Source Data Summit 2023Open Source Data SummitspeakerPracticalities of deploying open source databases
as Netflix
Video
Oct 3, 2022ApacheCon North America 2022Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerImproving Bad Partition Handling in Apache Cassandra

Reading and compacting Bad Partitions have long been known to impact Cassandra performance.

Slides
Sep 10, 2019Apache Cassandra Summit 2019 (at ApacheCon NA)Cassandra SummittalkCassandra 4.0: Our Most Stable Major Release

In mid-2018 the Cassandra community committed to making Cassandra 4.0 the most stable major release of Cassandra in the project’s history.

Sep 9, 2019ApacheCon North America 2019Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)speakerCassandra 4.0: Our Most Stable Major Release

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Patrick McFadin6—2025
Scott Andreas6—2025
Dinesh Joshi412025
Alex Petrov4—2025
Paul Brebner4—2025
Jeffrey Carpenter4—2023
Cheng Wang332025
Aaron Ploetz3—2025
Chaoran Yu3—2025
Johnny Miller3—2025
Matt Topol3—2025
Saranya Krishnakumar3—2025
Lindsey Zurovchak3—2024
Bernardo Botella Corbi222025
Ekaterina Dimitrova212025

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.