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Ritvik Raj is a highly skilled Data Engineer with extensive knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem and SQL-based technologies. He is a professional with a great understanding of development and big data architecture. With 4.29 years of relevant experience, Ritvik has helped his previous company to sign off vendors providing big data services, thus saving a good amount of resources. He is an expert in employing data analytics and engineering solutions that drive business strategy. Currently, Ritvik is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Unravel Data, where he is a part of the Innovation Team. He is responsible for developing innovative prototypes to delight customers and fuel growth. In his previous role as a Data Engineer (Manager) at Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) Team at Jio, Ritvik deployed several use cases involving data ingestion, data preprocessing, dashboard visualization, and aggregation (KPI). He implemented several use cases using Spark and Scala. The technologies involved in his work include Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Scala, Nifi, HQL, SQL, Hive, Hadoop, parallel processing, distributed storage, Elastic Search, Sqoop, GG, Zoomdata, Apache Zeppelin, Microsoft Azure, Data warehousing, and related big data engineering tools. Ritvik has a Master's degree in Computer Vision from Tohoku University, where he worked as a Research Assistant at Computer Vision Lab. His Master's thesis project was "Detection of components of the building structure (bridges) from their images using deep learning." The tools used in his project include CNN, Python, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Deep Learning, GPUs, ML, and related technologies. Ritvik has a 5-year Integrated M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He also has a Higher Secondary Education degree in PCM from St. Michael's High School, Patna, and a Secondary Education degree from the International School, Patna. Ritvik's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Big Data, SQL, Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Kafka, Azure, Computer Vision, Python, Research Scientist, Deep Learning, ETL, Apache Hive, Elastic Search, Search, ML, CNN, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Jupyter, Image Processing, Scikit, and Mobile. Ritvik looks forward to connecting with people on LinkedIn and working with them in the future.