Tim Spann is a Developer Advocate for StreamNative. He works with StreamNative Cloud, Apache Pulsar, Apache Flink, Flink SQL, Apache NiFi, MiniFi, Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, Apache Spark, Big Data, the IoT, machine learning, and deep learning. Tim has over a decade of experience with the IoT, big data, distributed computing, messaging, streaming technologies, and Java programming. Previously, he was a Principal DataFlow Field Engineer at Cloudera, a Senior Solutions Engineer at Hortonworks, a Senior Solutions Architect at AirisData, a Senior Field Engineer at Pivotal and a Team Leader at HPE. He blogs for DZone, where he is the Big Data Zone leader, and runs a popular meetup in Princeton on Big Data, Cloud, IoT, deep learning, streaming, NiFi, the blockchain, and Spark.

ManpowerGroup reported in 2018 that 70% of companies interviewed in a survey said that they expected a skills shortage in field service personnel over the next 10 years. Field service workers are those who travel to locations to repair goods and services onsite. Among the contributing factors were an aging (and retiring) workforce and a lack of enthusiasm among millennials for field service careers. "For large enterprises, field service must address an entire lifecycle of a product or service," said Arka Prava Dhar, CEO and founder of Zinier, which provides field service AI solutions. Field service starts with work orders, then the work is done by the field service worker, then it's either verified or forwarded to an expert, Dhar said.

Scale is a vital part of bringing ML-enabled technologies to the world, from autonomous driving to drones, robots, and AV / AR. As our customer base is growing exponentially, you will be leading our field engineering efforts for our computer vision based projects, ensuring that the world's most innovative companies become passionate, lifelong Scale customers. Scale works with the world's top self-driving car and robotics ML teams on annotating data across Lidar, Camera, and Radar modalities. For example, our CTO, Brad Porter, was Amazon's top robotics leader, our Director of Engineering, Elliot Branson, lead perception at Cruise Automation, and one of our product leaders, Russell Kaplan, built out the core vision model for Tesla Autopilot. As our Field Engineering team continues to grow, we're looking for a player-coach to lead by example and build out the processes, systems, and structures that will support Scale's ambitious growth goals.