Girish Sawant

Girish Sawant has a diverse work experience in the field of data architecture and software engineering. Girish is currently working as a Sr. Big Data Architect at Bazaarvoice since March 2021. Prior to that, they were a Senior Architect at Citi starting from March 2020. From May 2018 to March 2020, they held the role of Sr. Big Data Lead at Connvertex Technologies, Inc.

Before that, Girish worked at Tata Consultancy Services from March 2010 to May 2018 as an Associate Consultant. In this role, they were responsible for designing data transformation logic and data flow, as well as moving data from MS SQL Server to AWS S3.

Earlier in their career, Girish worked at IBM as an Assistant Consultant from July 2008 to March 2010. In this role, they worked on a Hadoop cluster and handled unstructured and semi-structured data.

Their work experience also includes a role as a Sr. Software Engineer at Patni Computer System from June 2003 to June 2008. In this position, they were involved in requirement gathering, design walkthroughs, code development, and coordination with offshore resources.

Overall, Girish Sawant has gained extensive expertise in data architecture, big data, software engineering, and project coordination throughout their career.

Girish Sawant obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, from the years 1999 to 2002. In terms of additional certifications, Girish received an AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification from Amazon Web Services in June 2018. In October 2016, they obtained the following certifications: Accessing Hadoop Data Using Hive, Apache Pig 101, Big Data 101, Big Data Foundations - Level 1, Hadoop 101, Hadoop Data Access - Level 1, Hadoop Foundations - Level 1, Hadoop Programming - Level 1, MapReduce & YARN, and NoSQL and DBaaS 101. It is also mentioned that Girish obtained a Six Sigma Green Belt certification, but no further details are provided regarding the institution or the exact time of achievement.