Chris Mattmann is an experienced IT Executive, CTO and Division Manager of the AI, Analytics and Innovative Development Organization at NASA JPL. At JPL Mattmann is the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer and is JPL's first Principal Scientist in the area of Data Science. He has over 20 years of experience in the field. Mattmann was a member of the Board of Directors at the Apache Software Foundation (2013-18) where he was one of the initial contributors to Apache Nutch as a member of its project management committee, the predecessor to Apache Hadoop. Mattmann is the progenitor of the Apache Tika framework. Today Mattmann contributes to TensorFlow, Google’s technology platform for all things machine learning and has recently finished a book on Machine Learning for TensorFlow, 2nd edition published by Manning Publications. Mattmann is an Adjunct Research Professor at USC and his work helped uncover the Panama Papers scandal which won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 2017.