Issam Hijazi is a Senior Data Integration Engineer at Oracle, covering wide range of integration products that help organizations around the world to understand and build the right data foundation. He is enthusiastic about big data, and a data science evangelist. He got into the technology world at a very young age, and coded his very first line at the age of 10. Since then, he’s built substantial experience in many areas and mastered many products from industry leaders such as Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, MapR and many others. Issam’s known to be the guy to go to when things get complicated and no one has a solution. Besides technical blogging and being entrepreneur at heart, in his free time he enjoys traveling, music, playing guitar, training parrots and riding muscle cars.