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Atreya, Suraj

Suraj Atreya holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Edinburgh and has more than 7 years of industry experience. He has written software ranging from low-level 8-bit wireless sensor networks to systems scaling hundreds of nodes within a distributed system environment. Fascinated by the early Pentium-1 computer that his mother presented him, he started learning LOGO and BASIC. Later, he grew up writing C and C++. His interests include functional programming, distributed systems, and designing data pipelines. Suraj currently works for Glassbeam and loves using Scala and Akka for day-to-day data hacking. He has contributed to NeverWinterDP, a piece of open source data pipeline software.