He works on the Vertica Analytic Database in areas such as recovery, storage optimization, efficient re-distribution of data across the cluster, backup and restore, and Hadoop integration. Prior to joining Vertica he was one of the very first developers at Endeca which grew to over 500 employees over an eight year span and was eventually purchased by Oracle for over $1B. Stephen holds a B.S. in Physics from Boston College. However, he enjoyed his computational work and transitioned into software engineering. Stephen is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, where he's returned to open a Vertica Engineering office after nearly two decades in Boston.