About

Ankit Singhal is a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in enterprise software product design and development. He is currently working on Informatica's Intelligent Big Data Product, where he is applying his strong computer science fundamentals in Distributed Data Intensive Systems, Databases (SQL + NoSQL), Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Computer Networking, Concurrency, Object-Oriented Programming, Performance, and Scalability. Ankit has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science from Thapar University, where he developed a strong foundation in software engineering. He has worked with several renowned companies, including Harness and Informatica, where he held the positions of Staff Software Engineer and Lead Software Engineer, respectively. At Informatica, Ankit worked on the Enterprise Data Catalog, where he built a scalable solution for discovering similar columns among tens of millions of candidate columns, using Apache Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Phoenix, and Locality Sensitive Hashing. Currently, he is working on identifying GDPR entities in unstructured documents using NLP. Ankit is a versatile software engineer with experience in various technologies, including SQL, Big Data, NoSQL, NLP, Spark, and Hadoop. He has a relevant experience of 11.61 years, which reflects his expertise in software engineering. Ankit is a dedicated and passionate software engineer who is always eager to learn new technologies and apply them to solve complex problems.