Peter Linnell is a SUSE Sales Engineer. He has over a decade of experience in open source projects, as a founder and core team member of Scribus - the open source page layout application. Before joining SUSE, he worked at Cloudera - the Hadoop startup in Silicon Valley. He is a founder and PMC of Apache Bigtop, the Hadoop integration and packaging project. He was a co-founder and co- organizer of lirbegraphicsmeeting.org. While living in Europe, he was a technical project manager at INRIA, on HPC. At SUSE he has been part of the Big Data Team, guiding the technical and strategy direction on BI/Big Data. Prior speaking engagements include: Big Data and Linux at the LF Collaboration Summit in NYC 2013. California Govt Conference on Cloud 2013 California Govt Conference on Cloud 2014 Many meetup groups presentations, Europar.