Kayal Bennett

Background

About Kayal Bennett

STRENGTHS• Seven+ years of hands-on expertise in Big Data, analytics and cloud computing• Twenty-five+ years in Software Development• Constantly learning and leveraging emerging technologies• Strong leadership, mentoring and interpersonal skills; believe in leading by doing• Multi-platform, multi-language, multi-domain capabilitiesSKILLS• Domains: Data Engineering, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud Computing, ETL, SQL Server, Application Development, Data Warehousing• Hadoop / Big Data​ :o Built real-time Big Data solutions using Hadoop/hive handling billions of recordso Built scalable, cost-effective solutions using Cloud technologieso Implemented Big Data analytical solutions that 'close the loop' and provide actionable intelligenceo Expert knowledge in Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Storm, Kafka, Zookeeper, Pigo Cloud : Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Rackspaceo Working knowledge of Cloudera – CDH Cluster, Oozie Workflows, Hue Editor, HDFS, Cascading• ETL: o Used Python, Hive, Hadoop and SSISo Setup/configured EMR jobs to process hourly,/daily/weekly data and import/process the data to databaseso Data validation/fix• Languages : Python, Java, Shell, Perl, C / C++/ C#• Databases : Amazon Redshift, SQL Server, Sybase• Dev. Tools : SQL Server Management Studio, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, CVS, Subversion, Notepad++, Toad Data Point, SQL Workbench• Platforms : Mostly Windows, some UNIX• Business Domains : Video Advertising, Dept. of Defense, Finance (Investment Management)