Chen Salomon introduces himself as a data architect at Playbuzz, a 3-year-old company with 100 employees and 30 in R&D. Playbuzz creates engaging content formats for over 7,000 publishers. To scale efficiently, Playbuzz uses Redis for distributed caching, ETL session management, IP location lookups, and more. Their most recent Redis project converts IP addresses to integers for fast location lookups from cached hashmaps.