SUMMARY:

• Ability to define vision at 30K feet and quickly get hands - on at ground zero from prototype to production
• Deliver clarity and drive precision results even in the midst of vague or not well-defined requirements
• Rare blend of analytical, trouble shooting, leadership and ideation skills with strong technical background
• Capable of implementing Natural Language Comprehension: Sentiment, Topic and Knowledge extraction
• Highly versatile in Web and API development using JavaScript/Angular and Scala/Java based technologies
• Expertise in analytical frameworks and languages such as R, Python, Pig, Spark, Java MapReduce, Scala
• Experience with machine learning using Mahout, Scala/Java MLlib, Weka, R, Python, Tableau & QlikView
• Extremely energized and self-starter in all aspects of Enterprise IT from OLTP to Analytics Applications
• Hands-on experience with DevOps frameworks such as Ansible, Docker, Vagrant, Packer and Jenkins
• Extensive usage of Big Data systems: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, Impala, YARN, HBase
• 4+ years of development expertise with Big Data platforms: Hadoop, Vertica, Cassandra, HBase and Spark
• A total 20+ years of development experience with C++, Java, JavaScript, Spring, Scala, ORM, SOA & BigData
• Presented 10 refereed papers and 9 invited lectures in leading conferences including JavaOne and ACM
• Garnered 12 s for excellence in the Enterprise including the Technology Grand Champion
• Big Data Systems
• Data Integration
• Web Application
• Data Science
• Services Development
• NoSQL Systems
• Machine Learning
• Messaging Systems
• Enterprise Service Bus
• Real-time Analytics
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Systems Architecture

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Hadoop Data Scientist Hadoop Developer Trng. & Cert Hadoop Admin Trng. & Cert Vertica Big Data Advanced Tableau Oracle BDA Cloudera Spark InterWorks Tableau AsterData & TeraData Workshop Spring (IoC, MVC, SOA) SOA WebServices Oracle Database SQL Tuning Facilitative Leadership Coaching and Others Hibernate (ORM) ServiceMix/OSGI AutoSys Oracle Enterprise Manager Java Enterprise Edition Linux Performance C++ Persistence Powertier

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As the Platform Architect and Director, was the key player and technical lead of the Confidential platform implementation, providing visionary, architectural and hands-on guidance, research and direction.
• Implemented the soul of the platform which involves Intents and Events modeling using Natural Language Comprehension combining the power of Natural Language Processing, Word Vectors and Deep Learning.
• E2E Architecture and Realtime integration of Social Media content, Stream Processing, Natural Language Comprehension, Person Matching, Lead Generation and Distribution via API and User Experience.

Confidential

Director, Architect, Developer

Responsibilities:

• Proposed, designed and developed methods using the FaceBook API to gather the interactions on specific pages, and match persons using a combination of Confidential Matching Platform44, Pipl and FullContact. Realized an Industry leading match rate of +10% that was used to derive aggregate demographics.

Confidential

Director, Architect, Developer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered numerous large-scale projects in various capacities, for one of the World’s largest Travel Marketplace, in all aspects of application development for both Analytical and Transactional applications.
• Widely recognized and highly sought-after as the Leading Big Data Architect - for Analytical Platforms and NoSQLs, across the whole Enterprise, with a proven track-record of Ideation, Data Science, and versatility.
• Proposed, architected and built the Unified Analytical Platform (UAP) for usage by various Business Units in Sabre for Descriptive, Predictive, Visual, Streaming Analytics and BI on Big Data.

Confidential

Architect, Developer

Responsibilities:

• The goal of this project is to develop a Common Analytics Dashboard that performs at scale with the best-in-class open source tools while providing abstraction and interoperability with BI and analytics tools, such as Tableau, Cognos and QlikView to enable a seamless integration of Insights from Analytics on Big Data.
• Proposed the technology stack and currently developing flexible, reusable and customizable components using JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Require, Bootstrap and D3 for cutting-edge visualizations in Dashboards. The goal is to develop a catalog of service-enabled and responsive dashboard objects that can be assembled with built-in inter-component interactivity. Another challenge is in the seamless integration of Enterprise Security Systems to control Authentication and Authorization of access to data, insights and visualizations using single sign-on capability. The first few candidates to use this analytics dashboard are SMA Air/Hotel, Performance Insights, and Guest Intelligence Cloud.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Most Valued Developer in HCL/HP for distributed computing using C++, working for Singapore Telecom.
• Delivered the first integration of distributed ACID transactions for mission-critical telecom applications.
• Called-in to trouble-shoot an issue in DCE that baffled many developers, almost stopping one of the large-scale and critical projects for Malaysia Telecom, debugged infrastructure code, arrived at a novel solution and had the project moving within 2 weeks of the engagement much to the amazement of the sponsors.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Started day-one in the prestigious TIS project using C++/VisualC++ for the then newly formed Secretariate General Council of Ministers of the European Union in Luxembourg, to provide lexical translation.
• Developed the TIS time profiler system in Visual C++ for bench-marking the screen-level performance of the application. The Architect, PM and developers loved it as it proved valuable and instrumental in tracking and fixing performance issues in the various modules/screens.