Navdeep Alam

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Chief Technology Officer at Abacus Insights @ Abacus Insights
Navdeep Alam's Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, United States
About Navdeep Alam

Design and Architecture of Web Based and Client software applications and Analytical systems. Experience in designing, developing, deploying, and managing production level software for 20+ years. Most recently focused on big data analytical applications, like MPP data warehousing and MapReduce/Spark oriented analytics, and building SaaS applications in the cloud to support social media and healthcare driven analytics and on premise solutions for telecommunication analytics. Worked in Agile, and Scrum environments, utilizing Test Driven Development methodologies. Technologies used include the .Net and Java frameworks, C#, Java, C++, ASP/ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, Javascript, DHTML, CSS, Web Services, SOA, MS SQL (including Analysis, Integration and Reporting Services), Teradata Aster Data, Vertica, Hadoop, MicroStrategy and Oracle. Also have experience in mobile application development, current project owner (YoshiNav) for Google Android sports community project "SportsFlash", at http://code.google.com/p/sportsflash, https://github.com/yoshinav/sportsflashSpecialties: Software application development and architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Social Network Analysis, Cloud/Distributed Computing, MapReduce, Spark, Impala, Hadoop, MPP architectures, Gamification.

Navdeep Alam's Current Company Details
Abacus Insights

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Navdeep Alam Work Experience Details
  • Abacus Insights
    Chief Technology Officer
    Abacus Insights Apr 2021 - Present
    Boston, Massachusetts, Us
    Oversee the technical development of the Abacus platform, including the ability to further scale the architecture, data management, interoperability, analytics and secure cloud computing
  • Iqvia
    Senior Director, Global Data Warehouse, Systems Development & Security
    Iqvia Apr 2015 - Apr 2021
    Durham, North Carolina, Us
    • Responsible for managing and leading a team of 100+ for Global Data Warehousing and Security for Healthcare Data, supporting 100+ countries, 15 Petabytes of data and managing financials for this multi-million dollar business unit• Responsible for architecture and leading/managing the team towards a unified data architecture for Data Warehousing and Analytics (Data Lake/Hub)• Responsible for Data Warehouse and Analytics software development on Hadoop, leveraging Spark, Scala, Hive, HBase, Solr, Sqoop, Oozie, Kafka, Python, TensorFlow and R. Leverage Agile/Scrum with JIRA and continuous integration/deployment with Jenkins and Git• Responsible for 1000+ node Hadoop and Kubernetes infrastructure, implementing security with Kerberos and encryption in transit and rest, and high availability/redundancy for 99.99% availability in the private cloud. Implement means to separate compute and storage for elasticity on Hadoop• Architecture and implementation of our Human Data Science Cloud, a hybrid and multi-cloud healthcare data engineering, warehousing and data science platform on AWS, Azure and GCP, ensuring security and governance including HIPAA and HITRUST• Architecture and implementation of our Human Data Science Cloud API Marketplace, a storefront to showcase our AIML and Data centric APIs, leveraging MuleSoft and Salesforce.com• Responsible for enhancing our analytics and data warehousing for low latency, multi-structured analysis using data mining and machine learning against multi terabyte sources• Develop, support and grow vendor relationships, work with global business units to develop revenue streams to support continued growth and innovation. Institute and run Lunch and Learns, and other collaborative programs to foster innovative culture• Manage team responsible for our Global Healthcare Ontology, and innovations to allow for easier interoperability of heterogeneous data, including Data Virtualization with JBoss Data Virtualization
  • Empirix
    Director Of Engineering - Analytics And Prediction
    Empirix May 2012 - Apr 2015
    Billerica, Ma, Us
    • Responsible for architecting and leading/managing a team towards a unified data architecture. Enhance how our customers visualize and use data towards gaining value and ROI from our solution in the telecommunication space.• Responsible for enhancing our analytics for low latency, multi-structured analysis using data mining and mathematical approaches against multi terabyte sources, primarily using Java, Hadoop (YARN), Apache Kafka, Vertica and integrating with MicroStrategy on Linux stack.• Lead development of our predictive analytic solutions.• Develop, negotiate, support and grow OEM relationships and Analytics/Reporting business unit, manage budget and develop revenue streams to support continued growth and innovation. Institute and run Lunch and Learns to foster innovative culture.• Manage and lead a team of 10+ in 2 countries towards building a new analytics platform (IntelliSight), supporting near real time correlation, mediation, performance management and analytics of telecom and 3rd party data with a BI/visualization engine against a columnar MPP database optimized for ad-hoc analysis. Leverage non-linear equations for ranking, anomaly detection. Support multi-billion event data record processing per day, 450,000 aggregations/second, loading 1Tb of data/day.• Winner of the 2014 Communications Solution Product of the Year Award
  • Boston University, Metropolitan College
    Graduate School Facilitator
    Boston University, Metropolitan College Sep 2010 - Jan 2014
    Boston, Massachusetts, Us
    • Assist in the teaching of graduate school programs for Boston University Masters online programs in Computer Science and Information Systems, specifically graduate courses in Enterprise Architecture, Advanced Database Systems, Data Mining and Business Intelligence.• Hold virtual live classrooms to teach and answer student questions from around the world.• Grade assignments, quizzes, discussions, etc and assist professor in finalizing the final grade for students.• Moderate, mentor and guide students in the online learning experience.
  • Mzinga
    Director Of Data Architecture And Analytics
    Mzinga Sep 2010 - May 2012
    Burlington, Ma, Us
    • Overarching architect and leader for Mzinga’s Analytics division, which is inclusive of our Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) Data Warehousing and Analytics solution (Aster Teradata), utilization of SQL-MapReduce for advanced analytics, and integration with our business intelligence solution (MicroStrategy) and API to support social intelligence and Gamification applications.• Analytics system is designed as a big data SaaS offering in our private cloud to support analytics of a variety of data (structured and unstructured), Terabytes of streaming data, and requiring high availability, redundancy and velocity for advanced analytics, including behavior, text and social network analysis, to support near real-time analytics of social media, social learning, and business datasets.• Develop, negotiate, support and grow OEM relationships and Analytics business unit, manage budget and develop revenue streams to support continued growth and innovation.• Manage team of developers, architects, QA, project management, product management (~10 people) across 2 offices in the US, and developers working offshore in Mexico and Eastern Europe, using Agile approaches (iterative development) • Support Sales and Marketing teams with demos and calls with clients, analysts, and performing regular webinars.• Speak at conferences including Data Analytics Summit in Nov 2010 and Teradata Partners Conference in Oct 2011. Webinars, presentations, and slide ware can be found on my blog here: http://navdeepalam.wordpress.com• Contributing author to book “Social Nation”, described here: http://navdeepalam.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/social-intelligence-evolving-paradigms/
  • Mzinga
    Senior Software Engineer
    Mzinga Sep 2007 - Sep 2010
    Burlington, Ma, Us
    • Architect and develop community search, user/content reputation, user/content recommendation, social networks, dimensional models, and reporting/analytics dashboards for social media community platform (.NET, SaaS platform). Expose some functionality through Web Services and REST API. Use ASP.NET, C#, XML, XSL/XSLT, JSON, MS SQL, Graph/MapReduce databases, MS Message Queue and Dundas Chartings and Gauges.• Architect and develop business/social intelligence and data mining/analytics architecture for social media community platform. Design human and content relevancy models/networks. Design social activity trend algorithms. Use Microsoft Analysis Services, Reporting Services, MicroStrategy, social network analysis and artificial intelligence.• Systems designed to record, analyze, and report on approximately 1 billion social activities per month from social media community platform. • Lead Innovation Vital Factors initiatives in company to help create innovative culture.
  • Google Android Open Source Project
    Project Owner (Yoshinav) Of Sportsflash (Sports Community For Google Android Phone)
    Google Android Open Source Project May 2008 - May 2010
    • Project home page: http://code.google.com/p/sportsflash/, https://github.com/yoshinav/sportsflash• My (YoshiNav) mobile development blog: http://sportsflash-yoshinav.blogspot.com/• Android technology stack is Java, Linux and SqlLite. REST API is written in .NET (WCF - Windows Communication Foundation).
  • Knowledgeplanet
    Principal Software Engineer
    Knowledgeplanet Nov 2004 - Sep 2007
    • Principal architect for KnowledgePlanet's e-learning software content developers. • Managed development activities, support, and innovation of Firefly (simulation developer). • Senior engineer and architect of new features, using languages like C#, Java, C++, XSL, XML and implementing design methodologies like test driven development, Agile, Scrum, and design using UML and Visio. • Built B2B, and B2C intelligence of corporate website, and web service integration with SalesForce.
  • Knowledge Impact
    Principal Software Engineer
    Knowledge Impact Sep 2000 - Nov 2004
    • Architected and built Community Knowledge Management system, using ASP, COM, ActiveX, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. • Architected and built Performance Support System using DHTML, Javascript, Java, XML, and XSL. • Senior engineer on Firefly product, using Java and C++. • Integrate WexTech’s Natural Language Query technology with Knowledge Impact’s web technologies (ie. Performance Support Systems and Knowledge Portals). • Developed analytics technology and enhancing our various web products to be 508 compliant and localizable for government and international opportunities.• Manage and maintain the Unix, Linux and Windows NT/Server environments with IIS, WebLogic, and Tomcat running on our development and QA networks. • Provide telephone, email, online and on site systems implementation support for clients like PeopleSoft, Schwab, Wells Fargo, Government of Canada and Flemish Government..
  • Nova Chemical Research And Technology Center
    Information Technology And Application Support
    Nova Chemical Research And Technology Center May 1999 - Sep 1999
    • Helped to install Y2K (year 2000) version of Oracle 7.3.2. • Installed ODBC 32 bit drivers and Sqlnet on entire client network using Winstall. • Upgraded Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to year 2000 compliant version on all client machines on the network using Winstall and customized registry files. • Developed an interactive Laboratory Information Management System Web Tutorial application using DHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP (Active Server Pages) and ODBC (Microsoft's Database Connectivity). • Provided Windows 95 and Windows NT support (hardware and software) to research staff at Nova Research and Technology Center. • Provided applications support (Ex. LIMS) for researchers.
  • Syncrude Canada Ltd
    Unix System Administrator For Data Services
    Syncrude Canada Ltd May 1998 - Sep 1998
    Fort Mcmurray, Ab, Ca
    • Installed Y2K (year 2000) patches and diagnostic software to Hewlett Packard k420 servers. • Upgraded disk capacity and extended file systems on Hewlett Packard k420 servers to handle increased capacity needed for the Oracle 7 database system. • Installed and configured Netscape Enterprise web, and directory (LDAP) servers on Hewlett Packard servers to help set up an Intranet. • Wrote scripts in Perl to handle Oracle 7 and Unix batch process. • Provided Unix support for Oracle 7 database administrators (DBA's) and other users of our Hewlett Packard and Digital servers. • Maintained Unix servers. Dealt with issues like fixing our LVM (logical volume manager) configuration, decoupling two Unix servers, replacing faulty disks and Jamaica box power supplies on Hewlett Packard servers. • Conducted Change Management process at Syncrude. Dealt with clients and users to plan and work out a schedule to perform Unix system upgrades.
  • Exploration Innovations/Ei Processing Inc.
    Computer Programmer
    Exploration Innovations/Ei Processing Inc. May 1997 - Jan 1998
    • Developed invoicing database system using Microsoft Access. • Developed and maintained application/systems software developed in C, C++, and Fortran. Some projects included improving existing software that dealt with average and phase spectrum of SEG-Y data, SEG-2 to SEG-Y data conversions, and AGC/ ENER SEG-Y scaling/interpolation routines. Developed median filtering algorithms for noise reduction in signal analysis.• Worked collectively with seismic processors and secretaries to help in the implementation and debugging of new and existing software.

Navdeep Alam Skills

Software Development Agile Methodologies Databases Enterprise Software Xml Saas Business Intelligence Scrum Integration Product Management Java Linux Social Networking Web Services Microsoft Sql Server Javascript Perl Data Mining Oracle Enterprise Architecture Data Warehousing Big Data Sql Unix Tomcat Hadoop Mapreduce C# Distributed Systems Architectures Artificial Intelligence .net Css Uml Web Development Asp.net Json Sdlc Soa Sql Server Dhtml Html Application Development C Oracle Sql Visual Studio Mobile Applications Software Engineering Service Oriented Architecture

Navdeep Alam Education Details

  • Boston University
    Boston University
    Computer Science
  • University Of Calgary
    University Of Calgary
    Applied Physics

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