Sudha Purushotham
About Sudha Purushotham
Sudha Purushotham serves as an Associate Director specializing in Microstrategy, Cloudera, and Azure Administration at UBS, where she has worked since 2018. She collaborates with the data engineering team to support Spark and Hadoop job development and deployment, while managing various aspects of the MicroStrategy and Hadoop environments.
Work at UBS
Sudha Purushotham has been serving as an Associate Director at UBS since 2018. In this role, she specializes in MicroStrategy, Cloudera, and Azure administration. Her work is based in Weehawken, NJ, where she collaborates closely with the data engineering team to support the development and deployment of Spark and Hadoop jobs. Sudha's responsibilities include configuring and monitoring MicroStrategy environments, ensuring optimal performance and availability.
Technical Expertise in MicroStrategy and Cloudera
Sudha Purushotham possesses extensive technical expertise in managing MicroStrategy and Cloudera platforms. She is responsible for the installation, configuration, and administration of the MicroStrategy platform across Windows and Linux environments. Her role involves handling user management tasks, including provisioning and access control within MicroStrategy, and she actively contributes to the architecture design of clusters to accommodate growing demands.
Background in Data Engineering and Hadoop Management
Sudha collaborates with the data engineering team to support Spark and Hadoop job deployments. She manages the Hadoop distribution on Linux instances, focusing on configuration, capacity planning, expansion, performance tuning, and monitoring. Her work includes providing support and maintenance for various ecosystems, such as HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Impala, Spark, Kafka, HBase, and KYVOS.
Cluster Administration and Automation Initiatives
In her role, Sudha researches and recommends automated approaches to cluster administration. She is responsible for configuring and monitoring MicroStrategy environments, including tasks such as starting, stopping, resizing, and terminating environments. Additionally, she handles server software upgrades and collaborates with other teams on infrastructure changes to enhance system performance.
Best Practices and Standards Implementation
Sudha Purushotham recommends and implements standards and best practices related to cluster administration. Her focus on establishing effective procedures ensures that the systems she manages operate efficiently and meet organizational requirements. This commitment to best practices contributes to the overall reliability and performance of the data environments at UBS.