Aaron Ritchie has worked at IBM for over 11 years and has held a variety of roles within the Center of Excellence and Education groups. Aaron enjoys creating courses that educate and entertain and working with a wide assortment of open-source technologies. In addition to being the lead curriculum developer for IBM Streams, Aaron writes courses for BDU and is one of the dynamic duo in the "Big Data Dudes" YouTube series. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree from Clarkson University and a Master of Science in Information Technology degree from WPI.