About

Santokh S Dhillon is a seasoned Senior Big Data Engineer with a wealth of experience in data engineering, big data, and Spark including batch and streaming use-cases/data-pipelines. He is currently working at Times Internet as a Senior Big Data Engineer in AdTech where he is responsible for the development and maintenance of business-critical batch and streaming data pipelines. He is also involved in analyzing data use-cases and business requirements, data provisioning through Trino, Druid, Mongodb, Aerospike, and development of platform services and features supporting AdTech. Santokh's engineering expertise extends to backend engineering, design, and development of Microservices. He has a very strong design aptitude for scalability and performance, making him an invaluable asset to any team. Furthermore, he is an avid researcher with a passion for exploring and working on personal projects such as custom search algorithms, research on performance enhancement, ML, and robotics. Santokh has previously worked at JPMorgan Chase, where he designed and developed configurable capability in Spark for data ingestion from Hadoop to Teradata, implemented enhanced TCP congestion control algorithm for determining optimum batches for executor loads to improve ingestion performance, and developed event-driven microservices with Kafka for ingestion orchestration and pipeline execution. He also worked on microservices design, development, and deployment over pivotal and Kubernetes, machine learning model deployment platforms, and SDK for streaming ingestion capability to ML models through Kafka. Santokh holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar. He is also an art lover and a lifelong learner who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow. His technical skills include Data Engineering, Big Data, Spark, ML, Kafka, Microservices, Backend, Research Scientist, MongoDB, Search, Hadoop, Software Engineer, and Kubernetes. With 4.79 years of relevant experience, Santokh is a highly skilled and dedicated professional who can add value to any organization he works with.