About

Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar is a highly experienced software industry professional with over 19 years of experience, including 2 years in a research position with the Database Research Group at IIT Bombay. He is the author of four technical books on Apache Solr and Hadoop, as well as three international research papers on database search engines published in VLDB 2005 and ICDE 2003 proceedings, with over 662 citation indices. Currently, Hrishikesh is a Principal Architect at Amazon AWS, where he has been working since March 2019. In this role, he is responsible for enabling enterprises in their digital transformation journey on AWS Cloud in the areas of data, analytics, AI-ML, and more. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Big Data Architect at Amazon and as a Product Director (BI and Big Data) at Rolta India Limited. He has also held positions as Director-Data Capabilities with The Digital Group and as a Project Lead for the development of Oracle AS11g FMW WebCenter and Oracle 10G Portal at Oracle Corp. Hrishikesh started his career as a Co-Founder of a startup called DeusCo Technologies, IIT Bombay, for briefly 1.5 years in 2003-04. During his tenure as a research associate in the Database Research Group at IIT Bombay (2001-2004), he co-founded the Bidirectional Expansion Algorithm for Keyword search for databases. Hrishikesh's education includes a Diploma in Engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth, a Bachelor of Engineering from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji College of Engineering, Nanded, and Class 10th from Vidya Vikas Mandal Vidyalaya. His tech stack includes AWS, Senior Software Engineer, Research Scientist, Hadoop, Big Data, Search, Web, Spring, AI, ML, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Backend, test, MySQL, Jenkins, Azure, Integration, and Mobile. With a relevant experience of 21.20 years, Hrishikesh is a seasoned professional who has made significant contributions to the software industry and is highly respected in his field.