Agata Gruza has been at Intel for over 5 years working on performance optimizations of Big Data frameworks like Cassandra, Spark, and Hadoop for Intel Architecture. Currently she is a Lead Performance Engineer and focuses on Linux kernel software mitigation. Agata is a Google (Android Developer) and Facebook AI (Secure and Private AI) scholarship recipient. She holds double MS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Montana State University and The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, respectively. She is an open source contributor and  a founder of Women in Big Data North West Chapter. In her free time Agata enjoys hiking and outdoor activities.