About

Jithesh Kollarkandy is an experienced software engineering leader and technical architect with a passion for computer science. With over 22 years of experience in software design, development, and engineering management, he has worked in senior technical leadership roles building teams from scratch and developing flagship products on cutting-edge technologies. Jithesh holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Kerala, India. Jithesh has a strong interest in the latest developments in the IT field and is skilled in C/C++/UNIX, Big Data, Java, Spring Batch, REST, Design Patterns/Code Optimization/Grid Computing, Hadoop and Big Data/NoSQL/HBase/Accumulo/Hadoop Batch and Real-Time, Storm, Kafka, Zookeeper, TITAN graph db, Elastic Search, Hive, AWS, EMR, EC2, S3, PIG Scripting, Hive, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Micro-services, Loud ML, Project Management, Software Architecture and Design, UML/OOAD, Algorithms and Data Structures, and Logical Problem Solving. Currently, Jithesh works as an independent software consultant through IN Consulting, helping companies like Teragon LLC and ally companies solve multiple software problems by choosing the right technologies and architectures and designing and coding POCs. He also works as a business consultant for a company in Mumbai called iAASTHA to badge new projects. Jithesh has worked as a senior engineering leader for startups like Zyudly Labs, Lionbridge, enqos, headway, bfcdata, and many more in Bangalore. Jithesh has worked as the Indian Operations Head and Senior Manager for Bahri Data, a global leader in data-driven efficiencies in the maritime industry. He has also worked in Opus Consulting Solutions as an Engineering Manager and Big Data Architect, working on payment analytics using Big Data technologies. Jithesh's education history includes a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Kerala and a Pre-Degree in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry from the University of Calicut. Jithesh's tech stack includes Big Data, Senior Software Engineer, Research Scientist, Hadoop, AWS, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, Java, Kafka, ML, Elastic Search, Spring, Microservices, Search, Apache Hive, AngularJS, Spark, and C. With over 20 years of relevant experience, Jithesh is a seasoned professional with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the software engineering