Chris Severs works in the Search Science applied research group at eBay. Chris fell in love with Scala at first sight and has been one of the main drivers of Scala adoption at eBay. He has contributed to the Scalding and Scoobi open source projects and authored an addition to Scalding to provide support for Apache Avro. Prior to joining eBay he was a postdoctoral researcher at The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and then at Reykjavík University in Iceland.