Rusty Klophaus
Sr. Software Engineer, Basho Technologies

Rusty Klophaus is a Senior Software Engineer at Basho Technologies where he focuses on building distributed, fault-tolerant applications to store and retrieve Big Data. He is currently on the core engineering team of Riak Search and is the lead engineer designing Secondary Indices. Before joining Basho, Rusty launched an Erlang-based startup; before that he managed multi-million dollar technology products and guided multiple project teams at an Internet advertising company based in New York City. When he’s not hacking, Rusty plays guitar and organizes the Hacker News Meetup Group of Washington, DC.