Ivan is a senior software engineer at DataStax, where he is building an open-source data gateway, helping you and dozens of other developers to easily manipulate data stored in an Apache Cassandra database. During his career, Ivan worked on projects in different domains, often focusing on application performance. He is committed to open-source. He is an entrepreneur at heart and has already bootstrapped two startups. Ivan received his M.Sc. in Software Technology from Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences.