Manish B.

Manish B. has extensive experience in software engineering and data engineering roles. Manish currently works at Aerospike as a Sr Software Engineer, where they focus on building an Apache Spark connector for faster read and writes for Spark applications. Manish also works on benchmarking graph traversal strategies for a Graph product and has built a Spark bulk loading process. Manish works with technologies such as Scala, Java, Python, Spark, AWS, Docker, and Gremlin.

Prior to Aerospike, Manish worked at AppLovin as a Sr Machine Learning Engineer. Manish contributed to the company's ad serving platform and used machine learning to deliver personalized recommendations to users.

Manish also worked at Retail Solutions Inc., where they served as a Lead Software Engineer, specializing in Apache Spark. Manish developed a data engineering pipeline to predict on-shelf availability of items in stores, thus improving sales and profitability for retailers and vendors.

Before that, at Capital One, Manish held the position of Principal Software Engineer - Data Engineering & Data Science. Manish was responsible for building a next-gen fraud detection and credit scoring microservice using Java, Scala, Spark, and Akka. Manish also worked on a real-time computation engine using Flume, Kafka, Storm, and Esper for credit card customer credit line increase.

In addition, Manish gained experience as a Hadoop Engineering Intern at Zettaset, where they researched Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Manish also worked as a Software Development Intern at Kaybus, where they conceptualized and proposed an expertise model for the company's product.

Manish started their career at IBM as a Data Engineer, where they worked for two years.

Overall, Manish B. has a strong background in software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning, with expertise in Apache Spark, Java, Scala, Python, and various big data technologies.

Manish B. completed their Master's Degree in Computer Software Engineering from San Jose State University from 2012 to 2014. Prior to that, they earned their Engineer's Degree in Computer Science from Pune Institute of Computer Technology, where they studied from 2006 to 2010. In 2018, Manish attended Udacity and pursued a Machine Learning Nano Degree program.

In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the AS200 Server Operations Part I, AS201 Developing for Aerospike I, AS301 Advanced Features, AS303 Strong Consistency Mode certifications from Aerospike, Inc. in September 2022. Manish also acquired the HDP Developer & Operations certification from Hortonworks in January 2016 and the Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in September 2019.