About

Vijay Agrawal is an accomplished Solution Architect with over 15 years of experience in the field. He has a strong background in distributed architectures, microservices, data analytics, and big data. Vijay has performed hands-on architecture, design, and development of systems, and has a deep understanding of various big data and machine learning technologies and utilities, including Hadoop, Spark SQL, Hive, Pig, Flume, and Spark MLLib. He is also highly skilled in Java and Python programming languages, as well as Oracle NoSQL and RDBMS. Vijay has implemented ingestion and ETL processes, monitored performance, and advised on necessary infrastructure changes. He has worked with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managed a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues. Vijay is known for his strong communication and presentation skills, which he uses to translate analysis into insights and present findings. Currently, Vijay is a Senior Engineering Manager at Amex, where he designs, develops, and owns mission-critical systems for highly scalable infrastructure for low-latency and high-throughput core payment processing systems that have five 9’s availability. Prior to this, he served as a Senior Bigdata Engineer I and Senior Bigdata Engineer II at Amex, where he built and led a team focused on product development. He researched, extended, and developed products with advanced capabilities, interacted with customers and end-users, and collaborated with development to manage requirements and ensure high-quality product capabilities. Vijay holds a Post Graduate Program for Big Data Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, as well as a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) and a BCA from Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University and Disha College of IT, respectively. His tech stack includes senior software engineering, big data, microservices, Spark, SQL, infra, ML, NoSQL, Hadoop, ETL, Python, Java, Apache Hive, and research scientist. Overall, Vijay has relevant experience of 15.21 years.