About the Author

Shilpi Saxena is a seasoned professional, who is leading in management with an edge of being a technology evangelist. She is an engineer who has exposure to a variety of domains (machine to machine space, health care, telecom, hiring, and manufacturing). She has experience in all aspects of conception and execution of enterprise solutions. She has been architecting, managing and delivering solutions in the big data space for the last 3 years, handling high performance geographically distributed teams of elite engineers.

Shilpi has more than 12 years (3 years in the big data space) of experience in development and execution of various facets of enterprise solutions both in product/services dimensions of the software industry. An engineer by degree and profession, she has worn varied hats—developer, technical leader, product owner, tech manager, and so on, and she has seen all flavors the industry has to offer.

She has architected and worked through some of the pioneers' production implementation in big data on Storm and Impala with auto scaling in AWS.

To know more about her, visit her LinkedIn profile at http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shilpi-saxena/4/552/a30.

I would like to thank my husband, Sachin Saxena, and my mother, Manju Saxena, for their constant support and encouragement while writing this book. A sincere word of thanks to Impetus and all my mentors, who gave me a chance to innovate and learn as part of the big data group.