Josh McKenzie leads the open source strategy and execution at DataStax. With six years on the Apache Cassandra® project, he is both a Committer and a member of the Project Management Committee. Josh has over 15 years of leadership and engineering experience at diverse organizations, ranging from IBM Internet Security Systems and Morningstar Financial to High Frequency Trading firms.

He is passionate about and is working to advance the positive-sum economics of open source ecosystems. Josh holds a B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business.