Ryan Knight is Principal Solution Architect at Grand Cloud. He is a passionate technologist with extensive experience in large scale distributed systems and data pipelines. He first started Java Consulting at the Sun Java Center and has since worked at a wide variety of companies such as Capital One, Starbucks, DataStax, LightBend, Oracle, IBM, Deloitte, and Riot Games. Ryan regularly speaks at conferences in the US and Abroad. In his spare time he enjoys exploring the mountains of Utah with his family.