Christian Prokopp, Ph.D., is the Engineering Director at Big Data Partnership, a London-based consulting firm. Christian develops Big Data strategies, architectures, best practices and products for diverse clients, e.g. finance, manufacturing, media, retail and government. He helps large organisations navigate their Big Data journey from strategy to hands-on implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects. Previously, Christian worked as a Software Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Architect and Principal Consultant. In his last role, he handled the design and implementation of a fully cloud-based infrastructure for an e-commerce analytics startup processing hundreds of millions of products until being acquired by Google. In his spare time, he writes and speaks about Big Data or travels the world.