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Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski is a Principal Architect with Strategic Architecture at PayPal. He is the lead architect for Privacy and the lead architect for Developer Experience, which includes variety of tools in the DevOps arena. Before joining PayPal, Vladimir was the CTO and founder of a custom development and consulting firm and has advised and worked with clients ranging from high-tech startups to financial and government organizations. Vladimir is the author of the popular O'Reilly course "Introduction to Big Data" and a coauthor of the O'Reilly course on Kafka. Vladimir received a PhD degree in Computer Science from Aachen University of Technology in Germany.