Marcel Kornacker is the Chief Architect for database technology at

Cloudera and creator of the Cloudera Impala project. Following his

graduation in 2000 with a PhD in databases from UC Berkeley, he held

engineering positions at several database-related start-up companies.

Marcel joined Google in 2003 where he worked on several ads serving

and storage infrastructure projects, then became tech lead for the

distributed query engine component of Google's F1 project.