A veteran of the open source community, Xuefu spends most of his time on Apache Hive and Pig. Previously, he was the tech lead for Hive at Cloudera and led a global effort for the Hive on Spark project, worked on the Hadoop team at Yahoo, and spent his early career at Informatica gaining important experience in enterprise software development, especially in ETL and data warehousing. Xuefu is an Apache member and a PMC member for Hive, Sentry, and Pig.