Varun Kumar
About Varun Kumar
Varun Kumar is a Senior Hadoop Cloud Engineer with extensive experience in performance tuning and management of Hadoop infrastructures. He has worked in various roles related to Hadoop administration and data migration, and currently focuses on deploying Hadoop platforms in cloud environments.
Current Role as Sr Hadoop Cloud Engineer
Varun Kumar currently serves as a Sr Hadoop Cloud Engineer at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in Rockville, MD. He has held this position since 2014, contributing to the organization for nearly a decade. In this role, he specializes in performance tuning of existing Hadoop infrastructures, addressing performance bottlenecks to enhance system efficiency. His responsibilities include deploying Hadoop platforms on Eucalyptus private cloud environments and managing Spark clusters on Amazon platforms.
Previous Experience at FINRA
Varun Kumar previously worked at FINRA as a Hadoop Administrator from 2012 to 2013. During this year-long tenure, he was involved in setting up automated 24x7 monitoring and escalation infrastructure for Hadoop clusters using Nagios and Ganglia. His role included utilizing Cloudera Manager 5.4 for the installation and management of Hadoop clusters, as well as developing capacity plans for both new and existing Hadoop systems.
Professional Background in Hadoop Administration
Varun Kumar has extensive experience in Hadoop administration, having worked at Autodesk as a Hadoop Administrator from 2013 to 2014 for five months in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, he was employed at JB MICRO from 2011 to 2012 for nine months. His roles involved data migration from existing data stores to Hadoop environments and utilizing ETL technologies such as Pentaho, Informatica, and KarmaSphere.
Education and Academic Credentials
Varun Kumar studied at Silicon Valley University, where he achieved a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science. His academic background provides a strong foundation for his technical expertise in Hadoop and cloud engineering, enabling him to effectively transform client Big Data business requirements into Hadoop-centric technologies.
Technical Skills and Expertise
Varun Kumar possesses a diverse skill set in big data technologies. He is experienced in using Hive and Pig for data analysis and has knowledge of various databases, including Cassandra, MongoDB, Netezza, Vertica, and Greenplum. His technical capabilities also include importing and exporting data from databases like MySQL into HDFS and Hive using Sqoop, as well as loading logs from multiple sources directly into HDFS using Flume.