About

Amzad Mahammad is a Lead Big Data Engineer at Nisum with over 8 years of experience in IT, specializing in manufacturing, media, education, and banking domains. He has a strong background in computer science, particularly in Big Data, Hadoop development, and Java/J2EE technologies. Amzad has hands-on experience in cloud technologies such as Azure (Data Bricks, Data Factory (ADF)). Amzad has expertise in Java, Scala, and scripting languages like Perl and has worked with Play and Akka F/w. He has extensive experience in the Hadoop ecosystem, including HDFS, Spark, Hive, Sqoop, Oozie, Kafka, Zookeeper, MapReduce, and Pig. Amzad has experience in Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and RDD architecture, implementing Spark operations on RDD and optimizing transformations and Spark. Amzad has worked in building, configuring, monitoring, and supporting Cloudera Hadoop CDH5. He has extensive experience in data ingestion technologies such as Flume, Kafka, and Sqoop. Amzad has designed time-driven and data-driven automated workflows using Oozie and has worked with RDBMS including MySQL 5.5, Oracle 10g, and PostgreSQL. Amzad has good knowledge in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling algorithms, Python, R, and Java. He has hands-on experience in MVC architecture and J2EE frameworks like Struts and has experience in web development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery. Amzad is familiar with Agile and Waterfall methodologies and has extensive experience in Unit Testing with JUnit and MRUnit. Amzad is fluent in version control tools like BitBucket, SVN, CVS, and Git. He has worked in Onshore-Offshore development models and has good experience in client interaction, tracking, and status reporting. Amzad is an expert in delivering independently and working with cross-functional teams. He is skilled at risk mitigation and handling escalations and has a knack for connecting with people instantly. Amzad is driven by passion and has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.