Bhushan Lakhe
Data Practice Leader, Global Systems Architecture at Cognizant
- Role
- Data Practice Leader, Global Systems Architecture at Cognizant
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bhushan Lakhe
Mentor, Author, Global technology executive with a demonstrated track record of rapid progression. Background spans 20+ years delivering profitability through effective leadership and mentoring, innovative product offerings, technology enabled capabilities, strategic alliances, global delivery models, and development of best in class organizations. Proven technical leader and enterprise architect with strategic thought leadership and successful executions for Cloud Modernizations, Big Data Platforms, Data Warehouse, Analytics and emerging technology stacks using Agile methodologies. Demonstrated ability to fortify C level relationships agnostic of industry. Author of two popular Hadoop books geared towards Security and Migration. Currently leading Cognizant\'s Global System Architecture Data Practice; Leading major AWS Data Modernization / Transformation programs Launched Data Practice for Cognizant\'s Google Business Group; Led/influenced major GCP Data deals; expected 100% growth ‘22 Started Cloud Data Modernization unit within Coforge’s Data and Analytics Practice; Contributed to major Data wins Launched and scaled HCL’s Global Big Data Practice from the ground up. Included an 80+ team and multi-million annual revenue Honored with 20••••18 HCL Catalyst Award; Technical Advisor to HCL CTO for acquisition of a strategic business unit IBM’s prestigious Gerstner Award for exemplifying IBM\'s value and dedication to client success at Kaiser Permanente; successfully managed intercontinental move of client data center from Chicago to Scotland Cloudera 6 | MapR 6 | Oracle Big Data appliance release 4.3 | AWS ecosystem | Azure HDInsight | Google Cloud platform | Spark | Splunk | Tensorflow | Kubernetes | R | Java | Relational & EDW Design | Data mining | Predictive models | Analytics | Complex event processing
Experience
Data Practice Leader, Global Systems Architecture
Aug 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Building Data Practice for Global System Architecture group. Responsible for leading Presales strategy, Practice hiring / mentoring resources and facilitating sales for major AWS, Azure and Google accounts, building key alliances, establishing effective relationships with AWS / Azure account teams.
Education
The Johns Hopkins University
Executive Data Science program, Data Science
2019 — 2020
Northwestern University
Introduction to Business Analytics (certificate), Business Analytics
2015 — 2015
Northwestern University
Certificate program , Product Strategy
2019 — 2020
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
B. E. (Hons.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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