Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar is an enterprise architect with a blend of technical and entrepreneurial experience of more than 13 years. His core expertise involves working with multiple topics that include J2EE, Big Data, Solr, Link Analysis, and Analytics. He enjoys architecting solutions for the next generation of product development for IT organizations. He spends most of his work time now solving challenging problems faced by the software industry.

In the past, he has worked in the domains of graph databases; some of his work has been published in international conferences, such as VLDB, ICDE, and so on. He has recently published a book called Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr, Packt Publishing. He enjoys spending his leisure time traveling, trekking, and photographing birds in the dense forests of India. He can be reached at http://hrishikesh.karambelkar.co.in/.