Prashant Verma started his IT career in 2011 as a Java developer at Ericsson, working in the telecom domain. After a couple of years of Java EE experience, he moved into the big data domain and has worked on almost all the popular big data technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, Flume, Mongo, and Cassandra. He has also played with Scala. Currently, he works with QA Infotech as a lead data engineer, working on solving e-learning problems using analytics and machine learning.
Prashant has also been working as a freelance consultant in his spare time.
I want to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the chance to review the book as well as my employer and my family for their patience while I was busy working on this book.