Sumit Pal, who has authored SQL on Big Data - Technology, Architecture, and Innovations by Apress, has more than 22 years of experience in the software industry in various roles, spanning companies from startups to enterprises.
Sumit is an independent consultant working with big data, data visualization, and data science, and he is a software architect building end-to-end data-driven analytic systems.
Sumit has worked for Microsoft (SQL server development team), Oracle (OLAP development team), and Verizon (big data analytics team) in a career spanning 22 years. Currently, he works for multiple clients advising them on their data architectures and big data solutions, and does hands-on coding with Spark, Scala, Java, and Python.
Sumit has spoken at the following Big Data Conferences:
- Data Summit NY, May 2017
- Big Data Symposium Boston, May 2017
- Apache Linux Foundation, May 2016, Vancouver, Canada,
- Data Center World, March 2016, Las Vegas
- Chicago, Nov 2015
- Big Data Conferences in Global Big Data Conference in Boston, Aug 2015
Sumit has also developed a Big Data Analyst Training course for Experfy, more details of which can be found at https://www.experfy.com/training/courses/big-data-analyst.
Sumit has an extensive experience in building scalable systems across the stack from middle tier and data tier to visualization for analytics applications, using big data and NoSQL DB. He has deep expertise in database internals, data warehouses, dimensional modeling, data science with Java and Python, and SQL.
Sumit started his career as a part of the SQL Server Development Team at Microsoft in 1996-97 and then as a core server engineer for Oracle Corporation at their OLAP Development team in Burlington, MA.
Sumit has also worked at Verizon as an Associate Director for big data architecture, where he strategized, managed, architected, and developed platforms and solutions for analytics and machine learning applications. He has also served as a chief architect at ModelN/LeapfrogRX (2006-2013), where he architected the middle-tier core analytics platform with open source OLAP engine (Mondrian) on J2EE and solved some complex Dimensional ETL, Modeling, and performance optimization problems.
Sumit has MS and BS in computer science. He hiked to the Mt. Everest Base camp in Oct, 2016.