John DesJardins
VP Solution Architecture and CTO for North America at Hazelcast, Hazelcast

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John DesJardins is currently VP Solution Architecture and CTO for North America at Hazelcast, where he champions growth and adoption of our in-memory computing platform. His expertise in large scale computing spans Big Data, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Microservices, and Cloud.
John brings over 25 years of experience including 15 years of experience in architecting and implementing global scale computing solutions with leading financial services organizations at Hazelcast, Cloudera, Software AG and webMethods. He has helped architect and implement large scale applications with organization such as the European Central Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, CapitalOne, Standard Chartered, Visa, Discover, Paypal, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Coca-Cola, and many others.
He holds a BS in Economics from George Mason University, where he first built predictive models, long before that was considered cool.
Prior to Hazelcast, he worked at Cloudera, Software AG and webMethods, helping Global 2K firms architect massively scalable solutions for ingest, analysis and storage of real-time data, as well as working on innovations in areas such as IoT and Machine Learning.