About

Basant Choudhary is a highly skilled Principal Data Engineer and Big Data Solution Architect with over 16 years of experience in the field. He has a strong foundation in Azure Data Solution Architect and Azure Data Engineering, as well as extensive hands-on exposure to Big Data, Databases, and Java Technologies. Basant is certified as an Azure Data Engineer (DP-200, DP-201), and has a wealth of experience in the architecture, design, and production implementation of various Big Data and Data Engineering use cases for a range of clients. Basant's expertise extends to the Azure Data Engineering stack, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, ADLS, and Blob Storage. He also has an in-depth understanding of Apache Spark, and has extensively worked on performance issues related to this technology. Basant's strong foundation knowledge and hands-on experience with Big Data Technologies and Hadoop Ecosystem is also impressive, including Scala, Spark, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, Spark Streaming, Kafka, HBase, Yarn, and Zookeeper. He has experience working on Streaming technologies such as Spark Streaming and Kafka, and a basic understanding of Flink. In addition to his technical skills, Basant has extensive hands-on experience in Database Technologies, including Azure SQL DB, Azure Synapse, Oracle Database, SQL, PLSQL, and Performance Tuning. He also has a fair understanding and hands-on experience with Functional Programming concepts using Scala and Java 8. Basant has excellent understanding of Microservices Technologies, Object Oriented Design & Design Patterns, algorithm & data structures, and a fair understanding of Snowflake. Currently, Basant is working as a Senior Manager - Data Engineering at Publicis Sapient. Prior to this, he has worked as a Principal Software Development Engineer at Sabre and as a Senior Member Tech Staff at Oracle. Basant's tech stack includes Data Engineering, Big Data, Azure, Spark, Senior Software Engineer, SQL, Kafka, Scala, Java, Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, Microservices, Software Engineer, and Apache Hive. Overall, Basant is a highly skilled and experienced data engineer and big data solution architect with a strong focus on Azure Data Solution Architect and Azure Data Engineering. He has a wealth of experience in the field, and his expertise extends to a range of technologies and tools.