About

About Me

Tim Spann is a Principal Developer Advocate, Field Engineer and Solutions Engineer. He works with Generative AI, Snowpark, Cortex AI, LLM, HuggingFace, Python, Java, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink, Flink SQL, Apache Spark, Big Data, IoT, Cloud, AI/DL, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Tim has over ten years of experience with the IoT, big data, distributed computing, messaging, streaming technologies, and Java programming. Previously, he was a Principal Developer Advocate at Cloudera, Developer Advocate at StreamNative, Principal DataFlow Field Engineer at Cloudera, a Senior Solutions Engineer at Hortonworks, a Senior Solutions Architect at AirisData, a Senior Field Engineer at Pivotal and a Senior Team Leader at HPE. He blogs for DZone, where he is the Big Data Zone leader, and runs a popular meetup in Princeton & NYC on Big Data, Cloud, IoT, deep learning, streaming, NiFi, the blockchain, and Spark. Tim is a frequent speaker at conferences such as ApacheCon, DeveloperWeek, Pulsar Summit and many more. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science.

My primary blog is on Medium.

https://medium.com/@tspann

https://github.com/tspannhw/SpeakerProfile

Recent Events

November 2024

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/14-november-2024-conf-42-prompt-engineering-codeless-generative-ai-pipelines_-prompt-automation/273101171

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/2024-nov-05-linux-foundation-tac-talk-with-milvus/273100530

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/tspann06-nov-2024_ai-alliance_nyc_-intro-to-data-prep-kit-and-open-source-rag/273079590

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/tspann08-nov-2024_pydatanyc_unstructured-data-processing-with-a-raspberry-pi-ai-kit-and-python/273076376

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/2024-10-28-all-things-open-advanced-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-techniques/272786149

Other Talks (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• https://github.com/tspannhw/SpeakerProfile/blob/main/2023/talks
• https://github.com/tspannhw/SpeakerProfile/tree/main/2022/talks
• https://github.com/tspannhw/SpeakerProfile/tree/main/2021/talks
• https://dev.to/tspannhw/my-year-in-review-2020-3g91
• https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/01/year-and-decade-end-report-201.html
• https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/My-Year-in-Review-2018/ta-p/249363
• https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/My-Year-in-Review-2017/ta-p/247541
• https://dev.to/tspannhw/year-2022-streaming-wrap-up-456k
• https://medium.com/cloudera-inc/my-year-in-review-2023-0ef5e5a36711