Steve Loughran is a developer at Hortonworks, where he works on leading-edge Hadoop applications, most recently on Apache Slider and on Apache Spark's integration with Hadoop and YARN, and Hadoop's S3A connector to Amazon S3. He's the author of Ant in Action, a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a committer on the Hadoop core since 2009. He lives and works in Bristol, England.