Meir serves as the chief architect @ SparkBeyond since the company's inception. Throughout Meir's career, he worked at the intersection of engineering and data science, holding senior software engineering positions at the Israeli Air Force and NLP-focused startup companies. Meir is an open source activist, a Scala enthusiast and a data junkie with over a decade of experience leading complex, data-intensive projects. At SparkBeyond Meir helps design and build the next generation tools for data-scientists, working with Fortune 100 companies to solve their toughest problems by leveraging humanity’s collective intelligence. Meir is a security enthusiast, top 4% on crypto.stackexchange.com and past winner of capture the flag competitions.