Self-styled "Big Data Geekette" Rachel Pedreschi has decades of experience in database architectures and data engineering, and is a certified DBA in Apache Druid, Cassandra, Vertica, Informix and Redbrick. She recently completed a stint as interim chair of the community outreach committee of the Presto Foundation and is now head of technical services at Decodable. Pedreschi holds an MBA from San Francisco State University and a bachelor’s in mathematics from University of California, Santa Cruz.
