In two decades in the data management industry, Paige Roberts, Open Source Relations Manager at Vertica, has worked as an engineer, a trainer, a support technician, a technical writer, a marketer, a product manager, and a consultant.

She has built data engineering pipelines and architectures, documented and tested large scale open source analytics implementations, spun up Hadoop clusters from bare metal, picked the brains of some of the stars in the data analytics and engineering industry, championed data quality when that was supposedly passé, worked with a lot of companies in a lot of different industries, and questioned a lot of people's assumptions.

Now, she promotes understanding of Vertica, MPP data processing, open source, and how the analytics revolution is changing the world.