Sara McNamara, senior marketing operations manager at enterprise cloud platform Cloudera, was named by Lean Data the OpsStar of the year: and for good reason. Not only is Sara working on consolidating the operational core of Cloudera’s revenue engine — a journey she explains in this conversation with Kim Davis — but she’s also been doing it against the background of a major merger with Hortonworks, the open source big data software company.
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