Speaker: Alex Rasmussen

Principal Software Engineer @Trifacta

Alex Rasmussen got his Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2013. While at UCSD, he worked on really efficient large-scale data processing and set a few world sorting records, which makes him a hit at parties. He's currently working at Trifacta, helping build the industry's leading big data washing machine.

Find Alex Rasmussen at

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Principal Software Engineer at Trifacta

Talk: Unorthodox Paths to High Performance

Track: Modern CS in the Real World

Location: Salon E

Day of week: Tuesday

Duration: 11:50am - 12:40pm

Building high-performance data processing and storage systems that can both scale up and scale out is hard. In this talk, we'll examine some lessons my team and I learned while building record-setting sorting systems at UCSD, and how re-examining your assumptions, understanding your hardware, and actively avoiding work can make building high-performance systems easier.

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