About

Neeraj Soparawala is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the field. Currently working at Starburst, he has a strong background in data engineering and has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. Neeraj's most recent role was as a Data Engineer at Facebook, where he was responsible for the uptime of all enterprise data warehouse presto clusters. He participated in 24/7 response to resolve any issues and was responsible for provisioning, capacity management, monitoring, and troubleshooting the infrastructure supporting presto service for enterprise data warehouse. He also optimized the workload to reduce the compute and storage resources being used in the warehouse. Additionally, Neeraj was involved in the Vertica/Hive migration to Presto and Spark and automation around tools for the testing new presto releases and the migration effort of moving batch workload from Vertica/Hive to Presto/Spark. Prior to his role at Facebook, Neeraj worked as a Consultant at Clarity Insights, a data and analytics consulting firm. Here, he was involved in delivering enterprise-class, full life-cycle solutions including strategy and project management, BI/DW, MDM, data science, advanced analytics, and information delivery. He specialized in big data, closed-loop analytics, and customer intelligence, providing deeper insight and measurable results. His industry specialties included Healthcare, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services, and Insurance. Neeraj holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is skilled in Software Engineering, Spark, Data Warehouse, Data Engineering, test, Apache Hive, and infra. With his extensive experience and expertise, Neeraj is a valuable asset to any organization.