About

Abhinav B. is a highly skilled technology leader with over 11 years of experience in data science, marketing optimization, and strategic analytics. He is passionate about building great systems and great teams that deliver impactful solutions to complex business challenges. As a Chief Engineer at audigent, Abhinav is responsible for designing and developing data pipelines and workflows to ingest, organize, store, analyze, and digest data for core products. He has a strong understanding of advertising data, click streams, and data needs of clients, analysts, and systems. Abhinav possesses strong abilities as an agile coach, developing and mentoring team members to build an inclusive, trusting, and collaborative work environment that fosters a motivated and high-performing team. He has proven leadership experience in developing and transforming multi-disciplinary analytics, engineering, and marketing organizations into high-performing teams. Abhinav is experienced in working with a wide range of technologies, including Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Redshift, MLlib, DynamoDB, Redis, Distributed caching, AWS, Cloud monitoring, Automated deployments, Git, Agile, REST, Python, Scala, and Bash. He has built several big data pipelines that greatly enhanced his company's ability to handle tremendous volumes of data being ingested into its platform. He has also built scalable and customizable data stores using a combination of columnar databases, Mapreduce frameworks, and NoSql stores to support data products and data analysts. Abhinav has drastically reduced operational costs by using in-memory approximation algorithms such as HyperLogLog (HLL) and other sketches. He has also built proofs of concept to profile and benchmark several big data frameworks, which later helped in designing solutions that decreased ETL processing times from days to a few hours. Abhinav holds a Masters's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside, and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University. He has worked as a VP of Technology at Digilant and a Teaching Assistant at the University of California, Riverside. Abhinav's tech stack includes Big Data, Spark, Redis, Hadoop, AWS, MapReduce, Data Scientist, NoSQL, ETL, Python, Scala, and Senior Software Engineer.