About

Gunaranjan Sundararajan is an experienced Solutions Architect and Cloud educator with over 10 years of experience in the software engineering field. He is a Cloudera Community Champion and a technical reviewer for Getting Started with Kudu Book - O'Reilly Media, Inc. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Bellevue University, USA. Gunaranjan has five years of Hadoop administration experience with Cloudera and three years of Azure Cloud experience. He is a certified Azure Administrator and Security Engineer, as well as a certified Hadoop Cloudera Administrator. He has performed onshore offshore coordination and managed teams with diverse skills and working styles. He is responsible for running weekly stand-ups and stakeholder meetings to better understand the needs of the business requirements and needs. He has defined, documented best practices and runbook for teams and participated in weekly infrastructure meetings to prioritize releases and upgrades. Gunaranjan has five years and six months of experience in software design and development of Object-Oriented Software application with expertise using Java and J2EE technologies and Production Support and Lead Position. He is a self-motivated and a good team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and also capable of working independently even under high-pressure challenges. He has strong problem-solving and logical reasoning skills. Currently, Gunaranjan is an Engineering Manager at Altimetrik, where he helps define the technical roadmap and owns the entire machine learning product delivery end to end. He works closely with various business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies. He drives high standards on quality, delivering solutions on time and within budgeted cost. He delivers excellence in customer experience and value and builds and sustains product engineering teams. He hires and develops top talents and sets up processes and standards for engineering rigor adherence across projects. He also does presales on machine learning and data engineering. In the past, Gunaranjan has worked as a Solutions Architect at phdata, Inc. and as a Senior Hadoop Administrator at Modak Analytics. At Modak Analytics, he managed 650 nodes that include 9 clusters, 20 CDH services, and other services that run outside the cluster. He was responsible for on-call production support and ticket handling for all the 650 nodes and 9 clusters during IST/U.K business hours. He responded to customer requests like database creation, user permission, privileges on the hive/impala tables, data moving between clusters