Krishnanand Khambadkone has over 20 years of overall experience. He is currently working as a senior solutions architect in the Big Data and Hadoop Practice of TCS America and is architecting and implementing Hadoop solutions for Fortune 500 clients, mainly large banking organizations. Prior to this he worked on delivering middleware and SOA solutions using the Oracle middleware stack and built and delivered software using the J2EE product stack.
He is an avid evangelist and enthusiast of Big Data and Hadoop. He has written several articles and white papers on this subject, and has also presented these at conferences.
Muthusamy Manigandan is the Head of Engineering and Architecture with Ozone Media. Mani has more than 15 years of experience in designing large-scale software systems in the areas of virtualization, Distributed Version Control systems, ERP, supply chain management, Machine Learning and Recommendation Engine, behavior-based retargeting, and behavior targeting creative. Prior to joining Ozone Media, Mani handled various responsibilities at VMware, Oracle, AOL, and Manhattan Associates. At Ozone Media he is responsible for products, technology, and research initiatives. Mani can be reached at <[email protected]> and http://in.linkedin.com/in/mmanigandan/.
Vidyasagar N V had an interest in computer science since an early age. Some of his serious work in computers and computer networks began during his high school days. Later he went to the prestigious Institute Of Technology, Banaras Hindu University for his B.Tech. He is working as a software developer and data expert, developing and building scalable systems. He has worked with a variety of second, third, and fourth generation languages. He has also worked with flat files, indexed files, hierarchical databases, network databases, and relational databases, such as NOSQL databases, Hadoop, and related technologies. Currently, he is working as a senior developer at Collective Inc., developing Big-Data-based structured data extraction techniques using the web and local information. He enjoys developing high-quality software, web-based solutions, and designing secure and scalable data systems.
Siddharth Tiwari has been in the industry since the past three years working on Machine learning, Text Analytics, Big Data Management, and information search and Management. Currently he is employed by EMC Corporation's Big Data management and analytics initiative and product engineering wing for their Hadoop distribution.
He is a part of the TeraSort and MinuteSort world records, achieved while working with a large financial services firm.
He pursued Bachelor of Technology from Uttar Pradesh Technical University with equivalent CGPA 8.