David Engfer is a senior consultant for Pariveda Solutions, an IT consulting company which provides business and technology strategy, custom application development, systems integration, mobility, BI, portals and ECM. He is the organizer for the DFW BigData users' group, which focuses on learning more about the technologies, use–cases, and practices around NoSQL and BigData (it also serves as the DFW Hadoop Users' Group). David's current technology passions include Hadoop, HBase, distributed computing, R, Zend Framework, and polyglot persistence with NoSQL.

You can get in contact with David via:

• Twitter: @engfer