Viraj Bhat
Data Platform Lead
- Role
- Development Team Lead at Visa
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Viraj Bhat
I have more 15+ years of strong hands on experience in both research and development, in the area of Parallel/Distributed systems, Databases & Information Management. Leader in Data Architecture, Engineering, Governance, Products & Marketplace Experience in a variety of domains including, cloud, big data, AI/ML.Currently building data pipelines for Applied Machine Learning at GoDaddy. Driven by challenges and learning new technology to drive business outcomes.I specialize in open source, cross platform object-oriented software development, large-scale data processing, and distributed systems.I have been involved with Hadoop since it’s early days at Yahoo! I have worked on open source projects such as Hive and Pig.I have also lead the efforts on providing technical consultation to various Hadoop projects by on-boarding them to production grids. Training of users on Hadoop technologies and building the user facing solutions and tools for users to simplify their experience on production grids.I also contributed to many innovative tools in the area of Grid performance analysis and Capacity planning. I am an innovator and lead contributor of \"Apache Hadoop VAIDYA\"- A Performance Advisor for Hadoop M/R Jobs.Specialties: Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Hadoop Capacity Planning, Object-Oriented Programming, Distributed Systems
Experience
Development Team Lead
Jul 2025 — Present · Foster City, CA, US
Education
Rutgers University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering
2004 — 2007
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
1994 — 1998
Skills
- Software Development
- Python
- High Performance Computing
- Java
- Apache Hadoop
- Distributed Systems
- Hadoop
- Mapreduce
- Computer Science
- Linux
- Apache Pig
- Parallel Computing
- Big Data
- Mpi
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Agile Methodologies
- Grid Computing
- Shell Scripting
- Perl
- Php
- Algorithms
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