AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Business Development & Practice Mgt IoT Telematics and Big Data Lambda Agile, TDD, BDD, SCRUM, CMMi and CI
• Pre - sales, P&L and Marketing Support Functional & Microservice Architecture RDBMS, MPP, MDM, In-Mem & NoSQL
• Executive consulting interfacing CXOs Cognitive & Advanced Analytics in ML AWS, Azure, GCP, BlueMix and Predix
• Team building & Vendor management Intellectual Property and Open Source On-prem, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS and BDaaS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Ecosystems: Hadoop + Spark ecosystem (Hadoop, Spark, HDP, CDH, Storm, HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Kafka, Sqoop, Flume, Azkaban, Ambari, Oozie), Play, SolR, ELK, Zookeeper, Cloud (AWS EMR/EC2/Kinesis, GCP, Azure HDInsight/EventHub)

Programming: JVM (Java, Scala, Scalding, Cascading, Crunch, J2EE), .NET (C#, C++), Akka, Python, Pig, UX (CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AngularJS), Unix (Linux, VxWorks, Ubuntu, Mac, CentOS, QNX), RabbitMQ, I/f (REST, Avro, Parquet, Thrift, JSON)

NoSQL, RDBMS & MPPs: HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Splice Machine, SQLite, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, Oracle/ATG, Teradata/EDW, DB2, AWS (Dynamo, RedShift, RDS, SimpleDB, CloudFront, S3, EBS), Azure(SQL, Blobs), GridDB

Network & IoT: AWS IoT Hub, MQTT/CoAP, AMQP, STOMP, IBM IoT Foundation, CloudFoundry, Bluemix, Predix, NVMeoF, TCP/IP, Node-RED, LTE-M, RaspBerryPi, BeagleBoard, Arduino Uno, Freescale, Confidential Edison, Confidential /Cypress WICED, OpenStack

Machine Learning, Data Integration & Visualization: MLlib, Mahout, Azure ML Studio, AWS ML, PredictionIO, MicroStrategy, Tableau, QlikView, Informatica, Talend, Pentaho, PMML, KNIME, Datameer

Process, Orchestration & DevOps: Project, Visio, Gradle, SBT, Git, SVN, ClearCase, Perforce, TFS, RFP/RFQ, Jenkins, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, JMeter, AWS(SNE, SQS, Kinesis), Security(SIEM, GRC, IAM), FDA, PCI/PII

Explorative: NiFi, StreamSets, Apex, Accumulo, Phoenix, Flink, Neo4j, MapR, R, Matlab, Falcon, Greenplum, SSIS, SSRS, PowerBI, SAS, OBIEE, Splunk, Nagios), Ansible, Containers (Mesos/Marathon, Docker/Swarm), Kubernetes, Node.js, Riak, Redis, OpenNLP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

PRACTICE DIRECTOR | ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in the planning, formulation and management of the CoE (Center of Excellence): Formed a diverse team of leads, architects and SMEs; Offered strategic consulting, solution blueprints, capacity planning and architecture implementing Data pipelines, Dataflow, Data governance, SIEM/GRC, DevOps and IoT strategy for several cloud and big data customers.
• Established standardized practices of lambda and kappa architectures for clients implementing end to end scalable architecture for ingestion, transformation, multi-structured & time-series data, messaging architecture, security management, ETL conversion, MPP integration, NoSQL and in-memory adaptation, hybrid OLTP/OLAP workloads and Perfkit benchmarking.
• Augmented the product line management, sales, and business development for Cloud and Data Center and delivered $55M in incremental revenue. Led business initiatives with proposals, presentations, RFPs/RFQs and marketing collaterals leveraging Big Data in the context of In-memory, Lambda, Smart NICs, Tungsten, Neon, NVMeoF, RDMA/RoCEv2/IB, Microservices, and IP/OSS.

Confidential, Menomonee Falls, WI

SENIOR MANAGER OF ENGINEERING | LEAD ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• As a founding member of the Big Data Innovation group set up a hybrid on-premises + cloud-hosted data lake ecosystem generating $15M in sales conversions and targeted advertising by collaborating with partners, key vendors, and resources (managers, architects, data scientist, BAs and SMEs) located globally and streamlining processes (CI, Agile and TDD).
• Bought in executive approval and managed the product roadmaps to enrich the retailer’s omni-channel strategy leveraging vendors and partners vetted personally; mentored leads, architects and SMEs in the adaption of evolving technology landscape.
• Instrumental in implementing Lambda architecture from PoC to production to support peak SLAs leveraging the frameworks of Spark, Akka, SolR, and Hadoop. Implemented data governance, real time CEP, click stream processing, golden path analysis and ML use-cases of various regressions, Frequently Bought Together, Related, Similarity (KNN), and Top-K trending.

Confidential, Orange County, CA

TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Managed the phased transformation of the ETL/BI/DW roadmap to accommodate transformation into a logical DW supporting Big Data (on-premises and cloud) from PoC to production. Coordinated a global group of SMEs, architects, and vendors (US, UK, India, Israel) catering to $8M in revenue with key customers ( Confidential and Confidential ) and potential customers.
• Managed ‘hands on’ the implementation of Data Ingestion, Pipelines, Security (Conditional access, Threat map, Incident forensics, Anomoly detection), A/B test framework, Clickstream Analytics, Realtime Insights and award winning Dashboards.
• Evangelized technologies, architected, and developed features of targeted advertisements, log mining, anti-piracy, Cloud DVR, OTT, PPV, VOD, Interactive Services, companion devices, governance, SIEM and compliance requirements (FDA, PCI/PII).
• Led the ‘cloudification’ of several projects leveraging REST/SoA and click-once deployment of field device assets over cloud infrastructures and CDNs. Implemented an RFID/NFC cell management system to detect, diagnose, and upgrade M2M DSCs.
• Organization-wide SME and champion in Intellectual Property and OSS, Agile, TDD and BDD - assisted with mitigating critical liabilities, improved delivery pipelines and streamlined customer and vendor management saving over $30M for the BU.
• Won company-wide award as part of the top innovation project initiatives from the CEO placed eighth most valuable project.

Confidential, Northridge, CA

SR. DATA SYSTEMS ARCHITECT | PROJECT LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Led the control and data layer component teams for development (Northridge, CA) and quality assurance (QA) (India) for the flagship Harman CC/AVR/HSBR products; used state-charts based actors for non-blocking messaging across components.
• Architected a dailies review portal using CDN and SoA. Upgraded several product lines with remote access for mobile and DLNA/multi-zone interoperability. Successfully set up and managed an offshore (QA) organization while actively contributing in architecture, development and optimizations of data flow, MDM merges, actors (later reactive), data access and storage.
• Introduced agile and SCRUM and transformed the legacy manufacturing based culture into a process-rich organization.
• Confidential - Confidential ( ) Systems Architect: End to end architecture (Home Media Center HD DVR, STB, SatCom and OTT ecosystems), Vendor management(UK, Korea, & Singapore), Middleware, Memory map, Data and processor optimizations (ARM, MIPS), Data store, Security management(IAM & CA), Contract management, Apps support, Technical support and Quality.