About

KNK Kumar is a highly skilled Hadoop Developer and Data Engineer with over 9 years of relevant experience. He is currently employed at Anthem, where he is responsible for participating in requirement gathering meetings with clients and translating their requirements into highly specified project briefs. He is also involved in converting functional requirements into ETL design and presenting them to clients. Kumar is proficient in using various Teradata load utilities for data load and UNIX shell scripting for the file validation process. He creates complex SQL queries to verify historical and incremental data and code changes and validates the changes in SIT and Production environment. He conducts due diligence meetings with clients and organizes meetings with them. He works with Product Owners in negotiating the scope of technical changes and in communicating the release timelines and scope. Kumar has experience in analyzing data warehouse data to build various data marts for reporting purposes. He co-ordinates with various stakeholders during development phase for data extraction and loading. He develops and supports Extraction, Transformation and Load process (ETL) using Informatica Power Center to populate Teradata tables and flat files. He has also worked on analyzing Hadoop cluster and different big data analytic tools including HBase database, SCALA and Sqoop. In his previous role at Blue Cross NC, Kumar designed and developed Big Data Landing Zone for a project. He monitored code and design table structure for applications like Apache Hive using Hive query language. He also performed data extraction and migration from source to Hadoop Platform. He built consumption data tables in Data Lake (Hadoop) and automated the daily tasks for production support & maintenance. Kumar holds a Master of Business Administration degree from IARE and a Bachelor's degree from ZPHS Nalgonda. He is proficient in various technologies including Data Engineering, Hadoop, Big Data, SQL, ETL, AWS, Spark, Apache Hive, Data Warehouse, Scala, Azure, infra, HDFS, DevOps, and Web.