Tanmay Deshpande is a Hadoop and big data evangelist. He currently works with Symantec Corporation as a senior software engineer in Pune, India. He has interests in a wide range of technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Mahout, Sqoop, Java, cloud computing, and so on. He has vast experience in application development in various domains, such as finance, telecom, manufacturing, security, and retail. He enjoys solving machine learning problems and likes to spend his time reading anything that he can get his hands on. He has a great interest in open source technologies and has been promoting them through his talks. He has been invited to various colleges to conduct brainstorming sessions with students on the latest technologies.

Before Symantec Corporation, he worked with Infosys, where he worked as the lead Big Data/Cloud developer. He was a core team member of the Infosys Big Data Edge platform. Through his innovative thinking and dynamic leadership, he successfully completed various projects.

Before he wrote this book, he also authored two books, Mastering DynamoDB and Cloud Computing. He regularly blogs at http://hadooptutorials.co.in