Drew Paroski, co-creator of the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and the Hack programming language at Facebook, has joined SingleStore as a champion of in-memory computing. Prior to his tenure at Facebook, Drew worked as an engineer at Microsoft and IBM. At Facebook, he was part of a three-person team appointed to rebuild the software layer of the company's web-tier to support over one billion new users, building HHVM to improve PHP performance and co-authoring several patents in just-in-time compilation, dynamic programming languages, and runtime data structures. Drew is now focused on innovating with SingleStore's query compiler, aiming to make distributed SQL fast and improving the overall performance of applications. He sees opportunities for growth at SingleStore, particularly in its ability to provide real-time big data analytics capabilities to companies large and small.