Building a Recommendation Engine with Scala

Saleem Ansari is a full-stack developer with over 8 years of industry experience. He has a special interest in machine learning and information retrieval. Having implemented data ingestion and a processing pipeline in Core Java and Ruby separately, he knows the challenges faced by huge data sets in such systems. He has worked for companies such as Red Hat, Impetus Technologies, Belzabar Software, and Exzeo Software. He is also a passionate member of free and open source software (FOSS) community. He started his journey with FOSS in the year 2004. The very next year, he formed JMILUG-Linux Users Group at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. Since then, he has been contributing to FOSS by organizing community activities and contributing code to various projects (for more information, visit http://github.com/tuxdna). He also mentors students about FOSS and its benefits.
In 2015, he reviewed two books related to Apache Mahout, namely Learning Apache Mahout and Apache Mahout Essentials; both the books were produced by Packt Publishing.
He blogs at http://tuxdna.in/ and can be reached at tuxdna@fedoraproject.org via e-mail.