Doug is the original creator of Hypertable.  He led the Hypertable development team at Zvents and was instrumental in spinning the technology out to form Hypertable, Inc.

Doug first gained big data experience when he joined Inktomi's Web Search division in 1997.  There he held both management and engineering positions and was a driving force behind the development of the company's distributed crawling and indexing infrastructure.

With twenty years in the technology industry, Doug has a breadth of experience working for a broad range of companies including, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cambrian Ventures, Inktomi, Kosmix (@walmartlabs), Verity, Unisys, and Zvents.

Doug earned a B.S. in Computer Science from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1992 and holds four patents in search technology.