Apekshit Sharma (Appy) is a Software Engineer at Cloudera, and contributor of Apache HBase. Prior, he was at Google building backend infrastructure using Map-Reduce, Bigtable & Millwheel. He earned his B.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Currently he is working on performance framework and dynamic configuration framework in Apache HBase. He has also given tutorials in NoSqlNow! and JavaOne conferences.