Soumya Jena

Soumya Jena has a diverse work experience in various companies and roles. Starting from 2022, they work as a Principal Consultant at Aerospike, Inc. Prior to that, they served as an Engineering Manager at Rakuten from 2020 to 2022, leading the Cassandra platform development and operations. From 2019 to 2020, Soumya worked as a Principal DBA (Cassandra) at [24]7.ai, where they were responsible for database operations and benchmarking. Before that, they worked as a Cassandra SME / DBA at Cisco from 2017 to 2019, focusing on infrastructure design, deployment, and automation. From 2016 to 2017, Soumya held the role of Senior Engineer (Cassandra, Kafka) at Target and was responsible for handling large Cassandra clusters and designing a framework for providing Cassandra as a service. In 2016, they worked as a Senior Associate (NoSQL) at Cognizant, providing guidance on NoSQL databases and architecture. Lastly, Soumya worked as an IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services from 2009 to 2016, managing Cassandra and Kafka clusters and performing performance tuning and capacity planning.

Soumya Jena holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from BPUT (ITER) in Odisha. It is unclear when this degree was obtained. Additionally, Soumya attended JKBK College in Cuttack, but the degree name and field of study are unknown. Soumya also attended Ramai High school, but further details about this education are not provided.

In terms of additional certifications, Soumya has obtained multiple certifications from various institutions. These include being a Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader from Google (obtained in November 2022), an Apache Cassandra Administrator Associate from DataStax (obtained in June 2020), Google IT Automation with Python from Google / Coursera (obtained in April 2020), Certified Architect on Apache Cassandra from O'Reilly Media / Datastax (obtained in December 2015), MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Applications from Microsoft (obtained in February 2013), MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional from Microsoft (obtained in August 2012), MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Web Applications from Microsoft (obtained in August 2012), Certificate in Advanced Retail Management and Store Operations from TCS Business Domain Academy (obtained in February 2012), and MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance from Microsoft (obtained in January 2012).