About

Simon H. is a SAFe certified Senior Software Developer and Big Data Architect with over a decade of experience in analysis, design, and development of various data visualization and reporting applications. He is a data and analytics specialist who has experience in building Data Lakes including ingestion, transformation, and cataloging. Simon has built business-critical, scalable, and robust data pipelines and intuitive data products that power data discovery and analysis. Simon is a huge fan of best practices, innovation, and a positive attitude. He loves to develop high-quality software applications and has the ability to work independently and as a team player. He collaborates with the Enterprise Architect (EA) and Solution Architects, business, and the project team to understand business requirements and strategies, ensures completeness of requirements, and creates suitable software solutions to support those needs. Simon has extensive experience with programming using Python, Java, PLSQL, and Shell. He is also experienced in Big Data technologies like Hadoop stack, Spark, Kafka, Map Reduce, Sqoop, Hive, HBASE, SOLR, YARN, Parquet, Avro, zookeeper, and Airflow. Simon has experience with Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse, SnowSQL, and writing user-defined functions. He has also worked on real-time streaming with either Spark Streaming or Kafka and massively parallel processing using Python. Simon has created descriptive/predictive analytics solutions utilizing modern machine learning and big data technologies such as IPython, scikit-learn, pyspark, Numpy, Pandas, regex, matplotlib, and Statsmodels. He has developed applications using python-based django, flask, scrapy, web.py, and node JS. Simon also has working experience in front-end development using Angular.js, Node.js, JavaScript, and JQuery. Simon is a site reliability engineer who ensures that applications/services are highly available, reliable, and performant through world-class monitoring, alerting, and self-healing capabilities by applying DevOps best practices. He designs and builds solutions to improve the availability, latency, scalability, and performance of applications. Simon has experience working with multiple vendors and geographically distributed teams. He has also been involved in developing integration testing and load testing modules. Simon has experience with continuous integration and automation using Jenkins and Ansible. He has worked and executed projects in Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Simon has experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD). He has created rest services for consumption by external clients for enterprise businesses and