Anjan Kumar Ayyadapu

Cloudera Inc. · McLean, VA

• Work directly with customer technical teams to design Big Data architectures, CDP deployments, CML/CDE/CDF services, and Edge-to-AI solutions.
• Lead enterprise post-sales architecture from onboarding and solution planning through production deployment, optimization, and platform growth.
• Architect open lakehouse solutions on Apache Iceberg with interoperability across analytics platforms and Databricks workloads on AWS.
• Manage Spark modernization initiatives and improve query performance by up to 60% through compute, partitioning, and shuffle optimization.
• Built an automated Python capacity planning tool for CDP Data Services that reduced planning effort by 90% for customers and Professional Services.
• Install and administer multi-node Hadoop clusters, CDH-to-CDP upgrades, and Kubernetes-based CDP data service implementations.
• Act as technical liaison across Engineering, Product, Support, and Professional Services for escalations, security remediation, and product feedback.
• Develop implementation guides, runbooks, and automation utilities that accelerate adoption and reduce deployment complexity.
• Code Award for Commitment (2024) — recognized for prioritizing data-driven customer outcomes.

Amazon Web Services

• Supported escalated customer issues across EMR, Glue, SageMaker, DynamoDB, Athena, Personalize, and Hadoop architectures.
• Provided proactive guidance on blockchain, machine learning, and Big Data frameworks within distributed Spark and Hive environments.
• Developed troubleshooting workflows, tutorials, how-to videos, and knowledge base articles for the AWS customer community.
• Deployed cloud applications using Python, PowerShell, JSON/YAML, and internal AWS tooling for complex production diagnostics.
• Acted as liaison between service development and support engineering teams, leading tech sync meetings to relay customer feedback.
• Optimized MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, and HBase performance using advanced troubleshooting and Java code analysis.
• Performed network troubleshooting using TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, routing, traceroute, iPerf, dig, and cURL.
• Built internal software applications for global engineering teams to improve end-to-end service support operations.

XScion Solutions LLC · Virginia

• Led a diverse team of Data Engineers, DataOps Engineers, and DevOps Engineers across multiple geographic locations.
• Migrated data and services from on-premises data centers to AWS and GCP using Puppet, Chef, and data pipelines.
• Applied OS and Hadoop patches and upgraded clusters to the latest HDP versions, including Ambari and ecosystem components.
• Managed HDP and HDF (NiFi) clusters with Apache Ranger, Kerberos, SSL certificates, and REST API automation.
• Deployed Cloudbreak on AWS and administered RDBMS/NoSQL clusters in AWS VPC environments.
• Installed fully distributed Hadoop clusters with rack awareness, Oozie workflows, and HBase major compactions.
• Deployed GKE and EKS environments for containerized data platform delivery.

XScion Solutions LLC · Virginia

• Installed and configured Hortonworks Data Platform 2.5, 2.6.4, and 3.0 on-premises and in AWS VPC.
• Designed connectivity products for efficient data exchange between RDBMS engines and the Hadoop ecosystem.
• Led cluster capacity planning, hardware planning, performance tuning, and major HDP upgrades.
• Resolved production issues across Hive Metastore, Ambari Metrics, Ranger-Solr, Kafka, Storm, SSL/TLS, and HBase.
• Configured load balancers, auto scaling, JDBC/SSL for PostgreSQL, Ambari-LDAP sync, and Kerberized clusters.
• Improved HBase file locality and resolved region server failures during HDP upgrades from 2.3.2 to 2.6.4.
• Delivered DataOps POCs with product and engineering teams. [X]ceptional xScioneer Award & Spot xScioneer Award.

Tusker Solutions · Client: Apple · California

• Installed, upgraded, and managed 300+ node Hadoop clusters on CDH with Cloudera Manager and Nagios.
• Provided integration support for Splunk, Netezza, Teradata, and other RDBMS platforms.
• Deployed Hadoop on-premises, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace OpenStack with Kerberos security.
• Built Flume pipelines, Pig/Hive/Oozie workflows, DistCp migrations, and Sqoop imports from Teradata and Oracle.
• Acted as Level 2 support with runbooks, automated onboarding/offboarding, and application capacity planning.
• Performed CDH and OS upgrades, cluster monitoring with Ganglia/Nagios, and BI connectivity to HiveServer.

IBM · Pune, India

• Staffed and deployed 100+ SAP-skilled IBM consultants with monthly utilization forecasting and contribution reporting.
• Led end-to-end data delivery for five applications supporting ibm.com and Lenovo.com product and pricing catalogs.
• Managed operations across 14 teams in AP, EMEA, and NA while meeting SLAs and data integrity requirements.
• Verified dashboards and scorecards for executive reporting on daily feed status and large-volume data delivery.

IBM · Pune, India

• Installed and configured CDH3/CDH4, Cloudera Manager, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, HBase, and ZooKeeper clusters.
• Developed MapReduce jobs in Java and Pig Latin scripts for terabyte-scale structured and unstructured data processing.
• Implemented HBase coprocessors, Avro serialization, and sequence file processing for small-file optimization.
• Worked with IBM DB2 Warehouse Edition, SQL Server Integration Services, and WebSphere DataStage ETL pipelines.
• Best Performer awards from Deutsche Bank (2010, 2011) and IBM Best Performer & Coordinator (2010, 2011).

Wipro · Bangalore, India

• Built Linux servers, applied patches, compiled kernels, and managed CentOS and Red Hat environments.
• Configured Solaris Jumpstart servers, Apache hosting, networking, backup, and user management.
• Performed disk partitioning, file system reorganization, log maintenance, and production issue resolution.