About

Harshil Chhajed is a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for software development, particularly in Web Service and API Development, as well as Distributed Big Data processing. He has completed AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified Developer Associate, and for Real-time analytics, he has successfully completed Udacity Nanodegree on Data Streaming. With 9.5 years of total experience in software development, he has over 6 years of experience in Big Data ecosystems like Spark, Spark Structured Streaming, Kafka Ecosystem (Kafka, KafkaStream, KSQL), Hadoop ecosystem, Hive, and Cassandra. Additionally, he has around 8+ years of experience in software development with a focus on Rest Webservice and MicroService API development using Core Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Web Service, Spring Security, JPA with Hibernate, python, and python Flask. Harshil is an expert in programming languages such as Java, Python, and Scala (Intermediate), Object-Oriented Design, Data structures, and Algorithms. He has experience with dimensional Modeling using star schema and snowflake model and is knowledgeable in AWS Cloud World – EC2, EMR, Data Pipeline, Glue Data Catalog, Lambda, AWS S3, Redshift. He also has beginner level working knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes and intermediate level knowledge on AWS Kinesis, AWS Athena, Redshift Spectrum. With a completed Udacity Nanodegree on Data Streaming, Harshil has working level knowledge on javascript, html, css, JQuery and has experience working in the Agile Software development environment. He is a goal-oriented, quick learner, passionate about coding, software development specialist with analytical and problem-solving skills. Harshil is a Senior Data Engineer at Intuit and previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Optum, where he worked on developing data pipelines for batch ETL processing using Spark(pyspark), HIVE, Cassandra, and Tableau workspace refresh. He is experienced in data modeling for Cassandra and DataLake and has led the offsite development team in software development. He has also worked at Capgemini as a Senior Consultant, where he developed end-to-end Data pipelines using Spark SQL Jobs, Oozie, HIVE, and performed optimization of Spark jobs using configuration tuning. He has a Master of Science (MS) degree in Information Technology and Management from the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology