About

Rajit Saha is a seasoned BigData evangelist with over 20 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently the Director of Data Platform at Udemy, where he leads the development of Batch and Realtime BigData platforms from scratch to production class. Rajit is a visionary software development leader who specializes in building architecture and delivering projects on Production Data Platform Ingestion, ETL, and its Cloud Migration with IaaS, PaaS (AWS, Qubole, etc.) in an aggressive timeline. Rajit's love for working with teams to build great products and maintain production with quality, security, and performance is evident in his day-to-day work. He is also passionate about hiring and inspiring great talents, vendor management, and expense projection for CAPEX and OPEX. Rajit regularly presents in front of large internal and external audiences, showcasing his expertise in the field. Prior to joining Udemy, Rajit held various leadership positions at Experian, LendingClub, VMware, Oracle, Teradata, and IBM. At Experian, he was the Senior Director of Engineering, Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, and Ascend Sandboxes/Architect, leading multiple geographically distributed teams to build Experian Ascend Next Generation, cloud-agnostic, Data Analytic Platform to handle multi-petabyte scale of Data. Rajit also adopted Lyft #amundsen open source project for Global Metadata Hub while at Experian. Rajit holds an M.Tech degree in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from Jadavpur University and a B.Tech (Hons) degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Haldia Institute of Technology. He is skilled in Senior Software Engineering, AWS, ETL, Software Engineering, and infra. Overall, Rajit Saha is a hands-on and visionary software development leader with a well-rounded experience in building Batch and Realtime BigData platforms from scratch to production class. He is passionate about building great products, hiring and inspiring great talents, and maintaining production with quality, security, and performance.