About

Suraj Kumar Baghel is a seasoned IT professional with over 6 years of experience in software product development, data engineering, engineering management, project management, customer relationship management, and end-to-end delivery. He is a hands-on technical leader with a proven ability to supervise technical teams and deliver scalable solutions in a competitive business environment, leveraging the latest technologies and cloud platforms. Suraj has exposure to the dynamic and aggressive start-up work environment. Suraj has extensive experience in designing, building, and managing scalable Big Data applications, data pipeline, data lake, and data platform using the latest Big Data technologies and frameworks. He has hands-on experience in setting up, benchmarking, and maintaining Hadoop clusters. Suraj has developed applications involving data analytics, machine learning, image processing, and natural language processing. Currently, Suraj works as an Engineering/Engagement Manager - Technical Delivery at Quantiphi, where he manages a team of 25+ ML/Data/Platform engineers, BAs, and Technical Architect to design & develop end-to-end AI/ML products and solutions on GCP within an Agile/Scrum environment. He is responsible for staffing, mentoring, and leading a best-of-class engineering team, including creating career paths and performance evaluation. Suraj also proposed, presented, and reviewed technical solutions & architecture, engaged the team in low-level design and code reviews, managed customer relationships, and owned the overall lifecycle of ML solutions for different clients. Prior to joining Quantiphi, Suraj worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Flipkart Data Group, where his work involved development and maintenance of big data applications and platforms. He also set up, managed, and maintained different Hadoop cluster environments and benchmarking. Suraj has a Master of Technology (MTech) in Data Science (Information Technology) from IIIT Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus Bhilai. He is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Suraj's technical competencies include technical leadership, engineering management, big data platform, data science, Apache Hadoop, HDFS, Apache Spark, Yarn, Tez, Hive, Java, Scala, Python, Spring, AWS, AI, image processing, NLP, and SQL. He also has experience in CI/CD, integration, software engineering, OpenCV, neural networks, MySQL, and