Alexander Ignatov (aignatov on irc) is a Senior Software Engineer at Mirantis. He has expertise in networks, Java, high scalability and distributed systems (Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra). Alexander has been involved in the OpenStack Savanna project since its beginning. He is the main author of the Vanilla Hadoop plugin and actively participated in the EDP architecture/implementation. He is the author of the Heat provisioning engine for Savanna and Savanna's resource for Heat as well.