Rakesh Sharma is a Senior Manager - Solution Architecture, Big Data and Analytics at VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED. He possess expertise in big data, hadoop, mapreduce, hadoop cluster security, hive and 23 more skills. He is proficient in English and Kannada. Colleagues describe him as "Rakesh was part of my big data team and had great passion and enthusiasm for any big data related task whether it is development or administration. He single handled managed deployment of many Hadoop distributions like MAP R , Horton works , Cloudera when the products offered little help in the form of documentation. He managed integration with Kerberos and created a full-fledged big data environment. Besides this his efforts in collecting streaming data from social media for a social media analytics project and consultancy related work for a product analytics platform was commendable. He has a winning attitude never willing to give up " and "Rakesh is adept in providing solutions for complex business problem using right technologies. I am currently working with him and he is proficient in several technologies ranging from UI to back end. He has expert level knowledge in several Big Data technologies like Hadoop eco system, Solr, Nutch etc. He is expert in both application development and setting up clusters ranging from POCs to production level implementations. Also he can quickly learn any new technology which suits best for given business requirement. He can be natural choice for any of the complex projects that required niche skills. On top of development and infrastructure, he also have solid troubleshooting skills which can come handy in dealing complex issues at the time of support."