Amanda is a Developer Advocate for DataStax. Her passion is bridging the gap between customers and engineering!

Amanda graduated from Santa Clara University in 2012 with a Master’s in Computer Science, she also has a Bachelor’s of Science In Biology from the University of Washington –Seattle. She is based in the Bay Area and has worked for HP, Lockheed Martin, Teradata, and an Apache Trafodion startup Esgyn. Amanda is an Apache Committer and member of the PMC for Apache Trafodion. She has worked on customer poc’s, executive demos, AWS deployments, python coding, data science workshops, conferences, linux/hadoop administration, and scripting – a little bit of everything! In her spare time, she loves running, hanging out with her dog, and finding reasons to go to Disneyland.