Doug is co-founder and CEO of Hypertable, Inc, a company that provides professional services
for Hypertable, a high performance, scalable, NoSQL database.  He started the Hypertable project
and led the Hypertable development team at Zvents, prior to spinning it 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 infrastrucutre.  Doug earned a B.S. in Computer Science
from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1992 and holds four patents in search technology.