Dr. Marko A. Rodriguez focuses his time and energy advancing the state of the art of graph computing. Marko is a co-founder of Apache TinkerPop which is a graph processing framework leveraged by graph system vendors. TinkerPop’s graph traversal language is called Gremlin and it operates over both OLTP graph databases and OLAP graph processors. Marko is currently a Director of Engineering at DataStax. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of the graph computing firm Aurelius (acquired by DataStax) and a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Rodriguez lives in a small farming village north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.