Balaji Sivaganesan

About Balaji Sivaganesan

A Passionate Technologist with 17 years of IT experience and having expertise in Solution Architecture Definition, Design and Application Development across Big Data Analytics, Java, Mainframe. • Specialized in design and development of Big Data Technologies in highly scalable end-to-end Hadoop Infrastructure with hands-on evaluation of production systems to diagnose problems and suggest best practices.• Providing Solutions and Thought Leadership to customers in embracing Big Data solutions and choosing appropriate tools.• Hands on experience in Big Data Technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Mapreduce, Hive, Pig, Oozie, Scoop, Zoo Keeper, HBASE, Kafka, Storm over the cloudera, Horton Clusters with expertise on Real Time Stream Processing using Kafka & Spark on Lambda Architecture.• Hands on experience on R and Tableau, Analytical Models including Regression Models, Neural Nets, Random Forest, Time Series Forecasting and Clustering techniques.• Experience on Retail Analytics, Social Media Analytics, Financial & Risk Analytics.• Project Management Professional (PMP), Proven expertise in Project Management, Project Execution and Stakeholder management using Agile Methodology.• Experienced in handling multiple IT projects, delivery of various sizes across various domains like Banking, Retail domains. Worked with clients like Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, ING, Staples Inc.• Organized, autonomous and detail oriented with strong business and financial acumen, possess the ability to work within a constantly changing environment.

Experience

1. Cloud Migration Consultant

   Google

   Apr 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Cloud Migration Consultant - Data

Education

• PSG College of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), ECE

  1999 — 2003

• Great Lakes Institute of Management

  Post Graduation Program in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence

  2015 — 2016

Skills

• Requirements Gathering
• Apache Pig
• Flume
• Solution Architecture
• Db2
• Agile Methodologies
• Jcl
• Hbase
• Business Intelligence
• Cobol
• Node.js
• Spss
• Deposits
• Project Management
• Apache Kafka
• Hadoop
• Cloudera
• Spring Xd
• Tableau
• Statistical Modeling
• Phoenix
• E-Commerce
• Cluster Analysis
• Big Data
• Enterprise Architecture
• Vsam
• Predictive Analytics
• Data Science
• Hortonworks
• Data Mining
• Mapreduce
• Sqoop
• Retail Banking
• Unix
• Machine Learning
• Apache Spark
• Ibm Mainframe
• Mongodb
• Pl/Sql
• Logistic Regression