About

Hemlata Soni is a Lead Data Engineer at MakeMyTrip with almost 9 years of experience in the field of Data Engineering. She has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, where she was among the top 3 students in her department. Currently, Hemlata is responsible for leading the development of Big Data projects at MakeMyTrip. Prior to this, she worked as a Senior Big Data Engineer at InnovAccer, where she was involved in the back-end development of the product "Datashop" using Scala language on Apache Spark. This enterprise analytics platform enables faster and smarter decisions by allowing clients to have a better understanding of their data in different forms, databases, and locations. Hemlata has extensive experience in Apache Spark, NoSQL database Cassandra, and Hadoop concepts. She is also experienced in both real-time and batch processing in Spark. Hemlata has more than one year of experience in programming language Scala and has worked on various big data frameworks such as Kafka. In her previous role at Amadeus, Hemlata worked on the development of a product that provides real-time consolidated and consistent travel data to airlines, capturing the complete lifecycle of a passenger. She also worked on migrating data from Oracle to Cassandra using Spark and tuning parameters related to performance, handling concurrency, and fault tolerance issues. Hemlata's technical expertise includes Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Scala, Cassandra, NoSQL, Backend, Hadoop, UI, Senior Software Engineer, and Kafka. With her extensive experience in the field of Data Engineering, Hemlata is a valuable asset to any organization.