Vikas Thakur

About Vikas Thakur

Highly motivated and results-oriented Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform with 11+ years of experience in distributed systems, big data analytics, data platforms, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), and deploying machine learning models. Proven ability to lead complex data migration projects, design scalable solutions, and ensure data privacy compliance. Seeking to leverage expertise in building robust data platforms and micro-services to contribute to innovative technological advancements.SkillsExpertise Area : Distributed System Design and Architecture, Building Platforms, Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, GenAILanguages : Java, Scala, PythonDistributed Systems : Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, HUDI, ELK, Presto, Flink, Data-lake, Delta-lake, Dimensional Modeling, lake-houseGCP Services : BigQuery, Dataproc, Serverless, DPaaS, GCP, GCS, Vertex AIAWS Services : EC2, S3, EMR, Lambda, AWS Glue, RedshiftDatabases : Cassandra, Cosmos DB, MySQL, HBase, Elastic SearchDashboard / Workflow : Looker, Grafana, Tableau, Kibana, Airflow, Oozie, AzkabanWeb Technology: Django, Spring Boot, Rest services, NGINXOther Tools / Concepts : DSA, System Design, ML(MlLib, SciKit), OOPS, HDP, Ambari, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, DockerSoft Skills : Problem-Solving, Communication, Teamwork Expertise Area- Big Data Spark Apache Kafka and Streaming Platform Google Cloud AWS Cloud Design and Architecture Low Level Design High Level Design Data Pipeline Object Oriented Programming(OOP) Database modeling and designing (NoSql, Sql) Platform Development Data Structures and Algorithms

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Walmart Global Tech India

   Feb 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   In my current position, my primary responsibility is to ensure Walmart’s strict compliance with adiverse spectrum of privacy regulations that encompass critical aspects like the Right to Access, Right to Opt-Out, and Right to Delete. These responsibilities extend to the meticulous adherence to major legal frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and VCDPA. A significant part of my role involves leading a transformative initiative wherein we are introducing a novel tool, meticulously crafted from the ground up. The objective of this tool is to guarantee the har- monious alignment of all data lakes, characterized by their massive petabyte-scale data volumes, with the aforementioned legal and regulatory standards.Tools/Technologies - Spark, BigQuery, Kafka, Java, Scala, Cosmos, Hive, GCP, DPaaS, Serverless, Airflow and Looker

Education

• Department of Computer Science - University of Delhi

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Algorithm,Data Structure,Artificial intelligence, Operating System,Database, Network security

  2011 — 2014

Skills

• Django
• Hive
• Spring Framework
• Core Java
• Jquery
• Mapreduce
• Restful Webservices
• Mysql
• C
• Java
• Design Patterns
• Angularjs
• Xml
• Nlp
• Artificial Intelligence
• Javascript
• Apache Spark
• Hadoop
• Windows
• Eclipse
• Python
• Html
• Web Development
• C++
• Machine Learning
• Open Source
• Oracle
• Spring
• Hbase
• Jsp
• Data Structures