Marton Elek is an Open Source Engineer at Cloudera. He is an Apache committer in Apache Hadoop project and PMC member of Apache Ratis.

Currently he is working on the Apache Hadoop Ozone which is a new object store and storage solution for cloud-native environment. Also working on the containerization of Apache bigdata projects to run them on Kubernetes and other containerized environment. (http://github.com/flokkr, http://github.com/elek/flekszible)

He was the founder of the first Hungarian Java User Group and he is a regular speaker in various meetups and conferences. (eg. Datawork Summit, Berlin Buzzwords, Apache Roadshow, ApacheCon North America, Budapest Future of Data Meetup, Budapest Docker Meetup, etc.)