Matt Brender is the Developer Advocacy Lead at Basho Technologies. Matt and the team focus on the passionate community surrounding Riak, creating tools, apps and documentation for members of the community to gain familiarity with distributed systems and unstructured data. Matt describes himself as a technologist forever changed by Twitter. He uses his degree in Computer Science and love for APIs to code solutions to communication gaps throughout Enterprise IT. Matt is recognized as a vExpert in the VMware community and, in his free time, he likes to podcast as one of the Geek Whisperers or blog at Neckbeard Influence.