12 years of professional IT experience in Hadoop Administration on Cloudera (CDH), Hortonworks (HDP) Distributions Expertise in performing minor and major upgrades. Proficient in project management activities which include planning, design, scope management, estimation, resource administration and completion of project within specified parameters Experience of working on both Hadoop distributions, Cloudera Hadoop (CM, CDH 5.1, 5.2, 5.3), Hortonworks Platform(Ambari,HDP 2.3,2.6,3.1.4). Experience on building Hortonworks clusters and migrating data from existing Cloudera Clusters. Enabled Kerberos Security on Hortonworks clusters and encryption using Ranger KMS Working as Hadoop Admin and responsible for taking care of everything related to the clusters from POC (Proof-of-Concept) to PROD clusters. Single-handedly managing installation, upgrading and monitoring multiple CDH,HDP platforms Operating with multiple project teams to understand the infrastructure requirement and set up environments on a shared multi cluster platform Aligning with the systems engineering team to propose and deploy new hardware and software environments required for Hadoop and to expand existing environments. Working with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users which includes setting up Linux users (AD), setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce access for the new users. Contributing to design and development of moving the application to strategic architecture and helping in creation of a stable and reliable system Providing consultancy on project planning, execution and management in tune with the core business objectives (including risk management, effort / time / cost estimation, and contingency planning