About

Abhishek Nahar is a solutions architect at Databricks with over 14 years of experience in data architecture and analytics. He is a technology and domain agnostic specialist who works on solving business problems with data. Abhishek has helped organizations set up data architecture, working models, and processes from scratch to optimally utilize it for driving business decisions based on analytics. Abhishek has worked extensively with big data frameworks and tools such as Spark, Hadoop, MapReduce, Kafka, Hive, Impala, Sqoop, Databricks, Jupyter, and Zeppelin. He has also worked with big data vendors such as Cloudera and Hortonworks, relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and Postgres, ETL tools, workflow management tools, programming and scripting languages such as Python, Scala, Java, Shell, and SQL, search solutions such as Attivio, Solar, Lucene, ELK stack, different data formats, business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Qlikview, PowerBI, Grafana, and cloud solutions such as Azure and AWS. Abhishek specializes in designing end-to-end solutions with a target to get business value out of them. Abhishek employs agile methodologies while working on POCs with quick turnarounds to showcase technology applicability in the business to kickstart new collaborations and projects. He is a fast learner with proven records of quickly ramping up on technologies and domains as per business needs. Abhishek is open to take new challenges and solve the problem at hand by employing technology in the best possible manner. Abhishek has mentored colleagues to groom them into next-generation data leads. He has led teams of varying sizes across geographies and time zones with responsibility for their coaching, mentorship, and appraisals. Abhishek often acts as a bridge between business and technologists and helps business understand technology better by taking workshops and sessions on relevant technology topics. Abhishek has worked across client services, product development, and technology consulting. He is on a constant endeavor to learn new skills and technologies and is currently interested in topics such as data engineering, IoT, cloud computing, DevOps, blockchain, AI, and machine learning. Abhishek holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology from the Institute of Technology and Management. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Databricks, SQL, AWS, Data Engineering, Azure, Big Data,