Rafael Coss

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Director Technical Marketing, Community and Data Evangelist at Hortonworks

Technology / Software / Internet

Currently a technical evangelist at Hortonworks and helping folks learn and be productive with Hadoop. I am passionate and driven to build software that improves people’s lives. Previously I was leading and managing the World Wide Big Data Product enablement activities in IBM’s Big Data development organization. For the past 15 years, I have been part of 5 IBM internal start-ups in roles including: management, development, test, technical sales, technical marketing, business development and services. I am a critical thinker with a knack for creative problem solving and I thrive working in an environment with new technology and helping to define the product. I enjoy working with a mo...