Rick Morrow

Teaches at DaVinci Institute

As an AWS-accredited instructor, Rich Morrow is one of a select 100 individuals who has passed all five AWS certifications. Rich currently teaches the entire AWS suite of classes for Global Knowledge, where he serves as the Course Director for GK’s Big Data and Cloud initiatives. He also develops and records video instruction titles for O’Reilly. His “Spark in the Hadoop Ecosystem” and “Hands on with Redshift” courses have both consistently earned five-star reviews from hundreds of satisfied students.

As a 20-year open-source technology veteran who enjoys coding and teaching as much as writing and speaking, Rich’s current passions are cloud technologies (mainly AWS and Google Cloud Platform) and big data (Hadoop / Spark and NoSQL). Rich spends about half of his work life traveling the world training Fortune 500 companies on both their high-level value propositions and their low-level technical implementation and operation. His time is also spent speaking, writing, and managing analyst engagements around IoT, cloud, big data, mobile, and DevOps/agile methodologies. He served as one of the top five analysts for GigaOM and publishes his works through O’Reilly Media, Venture Beat, Global Knowledge, and other channels.