1 The biggest wave he ever surfed was in 1990 during a big storm in Costa Rica at a place called Pavones, home of one of the longest left-handed waves in the world.

2 His family searches for the most remote places to ski and includes Burnt Mountain Glades at Snowmass, Co. and Jackson Hole at Corbet’s Couloir among his favorite places in the U.S.

3 Favorite backpacking story took place in the Baliem Valley in Western New Guinea where Kaskade almost died while trying to hike over five mountain ranges with a local Dani guide and porter.

4 Loves traveling to Indonesia and has traveled to every major island except Timor.

5 One of five engineers who invented and built what is known as the BYNET, which scaled the Teradata database to the largest data warehouse solution that exists. It’s how he became passionate about data and analytics.