Thamme Gowda is a grad student at the Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and also an intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA. He is a co-founder of Datoin.com, a software as a service platform built using Hadoop and Spark. He is also a committer and PMC member of Tika, Nutch, and Podling PMC of Joshua (Incubating).