Bradford Stephens likes to do big things and kick ass.

He is co-founder of Drawn to Scale,  who built the first easy, scalable data platform. Their platform is much more than a database: you can process, store, serve, search, and query *all* your data. To *all* your users.

He has a love for public speaking, Hadoop, cloud computing, HBase, Lucene, graph theory, Iron Maiden, and using the right tools for problems

Bradford also runs the popular Seattle Hadoop/Scalability/NoSQL Meetup

Bradford had assorted careers in policial campaign management (at the Presidential and U.S. House levels), finance, and [briefly] music. He was the Lead Engineer of Data Platforms at Visible Technologies, a social media analytics company. When not writing software or talking to customers, he’s usually playing guitar and drinking wine. He also hosts the popular software blog, Road to Failure (roadtofailure.com).

Bradford has spoken at events such as OSCON, Hadoop World, LinkedIn TechTalks, ApacheCon, and many more. You can catch him speaking at CloudConnect, Interop, and GlueCon later this year.

He can be contacted at bradfordstephens@gmail.com, and is always happy to give advice or consulting (if you’re really interesting).

You can check out a recent video of a talk he gave at LinkedIn TechTalks here.