Ekaterina Dimitrova is a Software Engineer at DataStax and an Apache Cassandra committer. Previously, she worked as a Researcher at the Advanced Data Management Technologies Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh. Her work with Professor Panos K. Chrysanthis and Associate Dean Adam J. Lee on “Authorization-aware optimization for multi-provider queries” was published at the Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. Before coming to the US, she also worked for 7 years for HP, now DXC; starting as a Technical Support Engineer she moved to leadership positions where she was accountable for the UNIX and IBMi iSeries services for some of the most strategic company customers. She has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh (focus on Database Management Systems, Privacy and Confidentiality, and Data Science) and Masters degree in Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies from Sofia University, Bulgaria.
