Alain has been working with Apache Cassandra since version 0.8. He was the first Engineer at teads.tv which had grown to 400+ employees by the time he left. During his time at Teads Alain managed and scaled Cassandra clusters across multiple AWS Regions. His experience with Cassandra from the early days has included upgrading hardware, growing capacity, upgrading, and tuning all the time maintaining Availability. He works with The Last Pickle, Cassandra consulting company since January 2016, sharing his Cassandra expertise with the community and TLP customers.