Thirumal Murugan
About Thirumal Murugan
Thirumal Murugan is a Senior Data Engineer skilled in performance tuning and benchmarking of Hadoop clusters, currently working at HTC Global Services and Verizon Data Services in Tampa, Florida.
Title
Thirumal Murugan currently holds the position of Senior Data Engineer. He has been serving in this role at HTC Global Services since 2021 and has accrued extensive experience working with Hadoop clusters.
Current Companies
Thirumal currently works at both HTC Global Services and Verizon Data Services as a Senior Data Engineer and Data Engineer respectively in the Tampa, Florida area.
Previous Employment
Thirumal's professional background includes leadership and engineering roles at several major companies. He worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Architect at The Home Depot, a Spark Scala Senior Engineer at Hilton, a Big Data Portfolio Architect at American Express, and a Senior Big Data Consultant at UnitedHealth Group. He has also held positions at DXC Technology, Nous Infosystems, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd, IBM India Private Limited, Logica, and Covansys.
Education and Expertise
Thirumal holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Urumu Dhanalakshmi College and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from National College, both affiliated with Bharathidasan University. He possesses extensive skills in real-time data processing using Kafka and Storm, streaming data processing with Apache Spark and Scala or Python, and expertise in NoSQL databases such as HBase, MongoDB, and Cassandra.
Technical Skills and Tools
Thirumal has proficiency in using search engines like Solr and ElasticSearch, various file formats like SequenceFile, RCFile, ORC, Parquet, and AVRO, and cloud services from Amazon AWS, including EC2, EBS, and S3. His background also includes data mining tools such as R, SAS, and RapidMiner, along with machine learning and natural language processing techniques.
Community Involvement
Thirumal is an active organizer of a group called bigdataenthusiast, which focuses on big data technologies. This group allows him to share his extensive knowledge and stay updated with the latest trends in the industry.