Kurt Greaves is a highly experienced software engineer with 12 years of experience in the software industry. He started his career in the cyber security industry developing “big data” analytical systems with tools such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Nifi, and Kafka processing up to petabytes of data per week. Departing from the security industry he specialised in distributed systems at Instaclustr and became a Apache Cassandra expert, providing customer facing and in-house expertise for their DBaaS platform. Since leaving Instaclustr in 2018 he has been working at Zepben to build out their CIM-based Energy Workbench, utilising his expertise to build scalable hosting capacity solutions.