About

Chirag Gajiwala is a highly skilled Data and Security Engineering Leader with over 10 years of work experience within Data Engineering, Cloud Security, and Masters in Computer Information Systems from Northeastern University. Currently, he is working as a Member of Technical Staff 3 at Nutanix, where he is responsible for backend engineering in DRaaS, developing scalable pipelines using Nutanix DaaS by architecting ETL pipelines using Dremio, Coralogix, Tableau, ElasticSearch, Nutanix Objects, and Kibana. He is also working on a bunch of cybersecurity initiatives to improve the security posture within Nutanix DRaaS services. Chirag has expertise in building new database products, cloud agnostic applications from scratch, and integration of services within Cloud using Web API. He is proficient in languages like SQL, Python, PySpark, C#, Java, Rest API, and cloud services like AWS EMR, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Kafka, Glue, RDS, Dremio, Redshift, Dataflow, BigQuery, CI/CD, Okta. He has worked with tools like Tableau, Grafana, Kibana, PowerBI, Spark, Splunk, Azure DevOps, AWS Security, Swagger, Jira, and has experience in ETL System Design, Dimensional Modeling, Visualization, Forecasting, Product Strategy, Regression, SVM, Naïve Bayes, k-Means, k-NN, Random Forest, Time Series Analysis, A/B Testing. Chirag's areas of expertise include Big Data Engineering, Analytics, Cloud Security, and DevOps, Security Engineering. He has worked with companies like Humana and Colibri Group, where he developed C#, Rest API scripts, utilized SecAPI swagger UI for performing SAST and DAST scans, developed PowerShell scripts, CI/CD, ETL pipelines, managed team in driving transformation, and developed the product dashboards for the Business Users. He has also managed security audits, analyzed existing controls, developed automation for generating monthly counts of vulnerability types occurring within the dataset, and used REST API in SecAPI DB to make the http Get, Post, and Delete requests from the database connected to SecAPI DB. Chirag completed his Master of Science (M.S.) in Management Information Systems, General from Northeastern University in 2016 and his B.E in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from K. J. Som