Joydeep is a co-founder at Qubole and heads their India development team. Prior to starting Qubole, Joydeep worked at Facebook where he boot-strapped the data processing ecosystem based on Hadoop, started the Apache Hive project and led the Data Infrastructure team. Joydeep studied Computer Science at IIT-Delhi and University of Pittsburgh and has previously worked at Oracle, Netapp and Yahoo. Joydeep holds numerous patents, has many published papers and has been both speaker and panelist at Hadoop summits and at other Silicon Valley conferences.