Ashutosh Bijoor (Ash) is Chief Technology Officer at Accion Labs India Private Limited. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry with customers ranging from start-ups to large multinationals in a wide range of industries, including high tech, engineering, software, insurance, banking, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, media, and entertainment. He is experienced in leading and managing cross-functional teams through an entire product development life cycle.
Ashutosh is skilled in emerging technologies, software architectures, framework design, and agile process definition. He has implemented enterprise solutions as well as commercial products in domains such as Big Data, business intelligence, graphics and image processing, sound and video processing, and advanced text search and analytics.
His e-mail ID is <[email protected]>. You can also visit his website at http://bijoor.me.
Chhavi Gangwal is currently associated with Impetus Infotech (India) Pvt. Ltd. as a technical lead. With over 7 years of experience in the IT industry, she has worked on various dimensions of social media and the Web and witnessed the rise of Big Data first hand.
Presently, Chhavi is leading the development of Kundera, a JPA 2.0-compliant object-datastore mapping library for NoSQL data stores. She is also actively involved in the product management and development of multitude of Big Data tools. Apart from a working knowledge of several NoSQL data stores, Java, PHP, and different JavaScript frameworks, her passion lies in product designing and learning the latest technologies. Connect with Chhavi on https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=58308893.
Nitin Pawar started his career as a release engineer with Veritas Systems, and so, the quality of software systems is always the main goal in his approach towards work. He has been lucky to work in multiple work profiles at companies such as Yahoo! for almost 5 years, where he learned a lot about the Hadoop ecosystem. After this, he worked with start-ups in analytics and Big Data domains, helping them design backend analytics infrastructures and platforms.
He enjoys solving problems and helping others facing technical issues. Reviewing this book gave him a better understanding of the HBase system, and he hopes that the readers will like it too.
He has also reviewed the book Securing Hadoop, Sudheesh Narayanan, and a video, Building Hadoop Clusters [Video], Sean Mikha, both by Packt Publishing.
Jing Song has been working in the software industry as an engineer for more than 14 years since she graduated school. She enjoys solving problems and learning about new technologies in the Computer Science domain. Her interests and experiences lie across multiple tiers such as web-frontend GUI to middleware, middleware to backend SQL RDBMS, and NoSQL data storage. In the last 5 years, she has mainly focused on enterprise application performance and cloud computing areas. Jing currently works for Apple as a tech lead, leading various Java applications from design to implementation and performance tuning.
Arun Vasudevan is a technical lead at Accion Labs India Private Limited. He specializes in Business Analytics and Visualization and has worked on solutions in various industry verticals, including insurance, telecom, and retail. He specializes in developing applications on Big Data technologies, including Hadoop stack, Cloud technologies, and NoSQL databases. He also has expertise on cloud infrastructure setup and management using OpenStack and AWS APIs.
Arun is skilled in Java J2EE, JavaScript, relational databases, NoSQL technologies, and visualization using custom-built JavaScript visualization tools such as D3JS. Arun manages a team that delivers business analytics and visualization solutions.
His e-mail address is <[email protected]>. You can also visit his LinkedIn account at https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=40201159.