Mark is a motivated software developer and a published author, always looking to solve interesting and challenging problems that redefine our world, one small step at a time.

He's the co-author of O'Reilly's Hadoop Application Architectures book. You can read more about the book at hadooparchitecturebook.com He is also a regular speaker on topics related big data, design and architectures at conferences around the world.

Previously, Mark also contributed a section in O'Reilly's 'Programming Hive'​ book. He has a passion for developing, contributing and using open source technologies and making their deployment easily accessible to others.

You can see some of Mark's interviews here:

O'Reilly video interview with Mark Grover on architecting big data applications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvD3-HpXGkQ

O'Reilly video Interview with Mark Grover on Working in the Hadoop Ecosystem: http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/09/working-in-the-hadoop-ecosystem.html

ZDNet Interview with Mark Grover: What Apache Spark brings to Hadoop http://www.zdnet.com/faster-more-capable-what-apache-spark-brings-to-hadoop-7000026149/

Cloudera Meet the Engineer: Mark Grover blog post: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/03/meet-the-engineer-mark-grover/