Ryan Desmond, Solutions Architect as Concurrent Inc. has nearly a decade of experience as a senior software engineer. Beyond his own entrepreneurial exploits, he has helped several companies in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and New York scale to meet rising demand, radical growth and ever evolving challenges. As a Solutions Architect at Concurrent Ryan is right in the middle of the Big Data game. Concurrent is the leader in Big Data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 175,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology.