Primary Job Title PMC member for ORC, Hadoop, Iceberg, and Hive projects Primary Organization 
The Apache Software Foundation
Location Sunnyvale, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Owen O'Malley is the PMC member for ORC, Hadoop, Iceberg, and Hive projects at The Apache Software Foundation. He attended UC Irvine.
Owen O'Malley is a former co-founder and technical fellow at Hortonworks, a rapidly growing company (25 to 1,000 employees in 5 years), which develops the completely open source Hortonworks Data Platform
(HDP). HDP includes Hadoop and the large ecosystem of big data tools that enterprises need for their data analytics. Owen has been working on Hadoop since the beginning of 2006 at Yahoo, was the first committer added to the project, and used Hadoop to set the Gray sort benchmark in 2008 and 2009. In the last 8 years, he has been the architect of MapReduce, Security, and now Hive. Recently he has been driving the development of the ORC file format and adding ACID transactions to Hive. Before working on Hadoop, he worked on Yahoo Search's WebMap project, which was the original motivation for Yahoo to work on Hadoop. Prior to Yahoo, he wandered between testing (UCI), static analysis (Reasoning), configuration management (Sun), and software model checking (NASA). He received his PhD in Software Engineering from University of California, Irvine.
