Jim Plush is a reputable Technical Director/Engineer with over 20 years of experience in building and recruiting high-performing engineering teams working on massive enterprise data processing applications. He possesses exceptional communication skills and can convey complex technical ideas clearly. Jim is best known for his ability to design large scale, distributed architectures for complex data processing systems used by industry giants such as Panasonic Avionics and McAfee.

Jim's work experience is diverse, ranging from working with PHP and Java to Apache Pig, Cassandra, Kafka, Cascading, Hadoop, Redis, Python, and Golang. Jim contributes to Open Source projects and has designed several game-changing projects such as GoTel (written in Golang), Goose (a Scala-based article extractor), and Cassandra-tools in Python. Jim's technical expertise and ability to develop practical solutions to complex problems have led him to speak at several important events such as the 2015 Cassandra Summit, the re:Invent conference in 2014, and the OC Big Data meetup in 2015.

Currently, Jim is a Distinguished Engineer at CrowdStrike, where he develops innovative solutions for cloud computing and data processing. He formerly worked as the Director of Cloud Engineering at CrowdStrike, the Director of Engineering at gravity.com, and the Technical Lead at Panasonic Avionics Corp. Jim's recent achievements include designing and commissioning the Golang Kafka client project for fault tolerance processing, developing a blue/green AWS cloud architecture, and scaling Graphite for application metrics.