Dexter Lowe

Dexter is a Big Data specialist who started his professional life making EPOS systems before moving into the world of Big Data in the advertising industry at VisualDNA. He has a passion for scalable and reliable systems and can often be found tinkering with Hadoop internals or exploring new technologies.

As data becomes ever more interconnected, he has delved into graph data and how it can be best exploited at extreme scale. Achievements include engineering a linearly scalable solution for ID linking in Janus and creating one of the fastest Neo4J bulk loading systems around.

He currently works in the quantitative research sector with G-Research dealing with dirty data and squeezing as much speed as possible out of Spark. Outside of technical achievements, while here he has founded and grown possibly the largest company Riichi Mahjong group in Europe, including arranging several sponsored Mahjong tournaments. When not evangelizing Mahjong, he lives with his wife and cat and enjoys reading, films, computer games, hiking, scuba diving, comedy and food and is always up for a coffee.