We are thrilled to announce that noted Apache CouchDB community member & committer Paul Davis will be joining Cloudant in July.

Paul had been on our “must-hire” list for a while now, and he will be joining a technical team that now includes a third of the currently active committers to Apache CouchDB! We’ve always tried to be faithful stewards and dedicated supporters of the Open Source community behind CouchDB, and this commitment will only grow stronger with Paul’s inclusion in Team Cloudant.

Paul’s background in large distributed systems & data analytics, combined with his expertise in Erlang and hardware optimization will undoubtedly come in handy as he helps us solidify our quality of service, add features to our platform and get BigCouch ever closer to 1.0.

You can learn more about Paul through his github, twitter or website.

Bottoms up, Paul. We couldn’t be happier to have you working with us.