Aaron Morton was the founder and CEO at The Last Pickle, a group of expert consultants who focus exclusively on Apache Cassandra. For 10 years, TLP has helped big and small companies around the world get the best from Cassandra with consulting, free tools, and their well respected blog at www.thelastpickle.com. Aaron is based in New Zealand and is both a Committer and member of the Cassandra Project Management Committee.