Published author with Apress - "SQL on Big Data - Technology, Architecture and Innovations",  Sumit has more than 22 years of experience in the Software Industry in various roles spanning companies  from startups to enterprises. 

Sumit is an Independent Consultant working with big data, data visualisation and data science and a software architect building end-to-end data-driven analytic systems. 

Sumit has worked for Microsoft (SQL server development team), Oracle (OLAP development team)  and Verizon (Big Data analytics team) in a career spanning 22 years. 

Currently, he works for multiple clients advising them on their data architectures and big data solutions and does hands on coding with Spark, Scala, Java and Python.  

Sumit has spoken at Big Data Conferences in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas and Vancouver.

Sumit is also the author of the book on the same topic - published by Apress, Oct, 2016.

He has extensive experience in building scalable systems across the stack from middletier, data tier to visualization for analytics applications, using BigData, NoSQL DB.

Sumit has deep expertise in DataBase Internals, Data Warehouses, Dimensional Modeling, Data Science with Java and Python and SQL.

Sumit started his career being part of SQLServer Development Team at Microsoft in 1996-97 and then as a Core Server Engineer for Oracle Corporation at their OLAP Development team in Burlington, MA.

Sumit has also worked at Verizon as an Associate Director for Big Data Architecture, where he strategized, managed, architected and developed platforms and solutions for analytics and machine learning applications.

Sumit has also served as Chief Architect at ModelN/LeapfrogRX (2006-2013)- where he architected the middle tier core Analytics Platform with open source olap engine (Mondrian) on J2EE and solved some complex Dimensional ETL, Modelling and performance optimization problems. 

Sumit has MS and BS in Computer Science.

Sumit has hiked to Mt. Everest Base camp in Oct, 2016.