Education

• MS in Information Systems, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 2016
• BE in Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India, 2012

Professional Experience

• Senior Systems Analyst, Institute for Transportation, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2019–present
• Cloud Support Engineer (Big Data), Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA, 2016–2019
• Graduate Research Assistant, Institute for Transportation, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2014–2016
• Supply Chain Engineer Professional, CO-OP, IBM Austin, TX, 2014

Selected Work Experience

Senior Systems Analyst, InTrans, Iowa State University

• Manage on prem Cloudera based HPC
• Designed and implemented ad hoc query and visualization framework based on Presto, Hive and Superset
• Leading the effort to migrate to cloud services
• Manage multiple projects/teams using Jira and Bitbucket
• Design and deploy data ingestion and storage process for traffic data
• Designed architecture for ML projects based on AWS

Cloud Support Engineer at Amazon

• Provide technical support to a wide range of external customers as they build high-demand applications on top of AWS services like EMR, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Athena, Data Pipeline and Glue
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to AWS customers
• Work directly with AWS architects to help reproduce and resolve customer issues
• Drive customer communication during critical events
• Conduct training sessions for new hires for AWS services
• Supporting IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) events for AWS customers

Technical Skills

• Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Presto, Pig, Kafka, Sqoop, NiFi, JupyterHub
• Operating Systems: Linux, Aix, Windows, MacOS
• Databases: MongoDB, HBase, DynamoDB, Redshift, Big Query, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS Access
• Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS
• Programming Languages: Python, PySpark, Perl, Shell, Java, Pig