Khireswar Kalita

Khireswar Kalita has a range of work experience in the IT field. Khireswar is currently employed as a Solutions Architect at phData since November 2021. Prior to this, they worked at Zaloni starting in 2019 as a Module Lead, specializing in Hadoop and Cloud support. Their responsibilities included helping customers with data streaming, storing, and processing in both cloud and on-premise clusters, provisioning and supporting Hadoop clusters, securing with Kerberos, and integrating authorization and encryption. Khireswar has extensive experience with Hortonworks and Cloudera distributions and hands-on experience with EMR and HDinsight on cloud-based environments.

Before their role as Module Lead, Kalita worked at Zaloni from 2010-2018, initially beginning as a System Administrator. Their responsibilities included installation and configuration of Active directory, DNS server, and group policies on Windows server 2012, network administration and security setups, and Linux administration tasks such as Apache, LDAP, MySQL database installation, and tuning. Khireswar also served as a Senior System Administrator, providing technical support to onshore and offshore developers and administering VMware Vcenter-based virtualization environment. In addition, they acted as a Senior Hadoop Administrator, responsible for the administration of Hadoop development environments and providing technical support to US-based clients.

Kalita's work experience also includes a role as a Trainer for Redhat Linux at Jetking from 2008-2010. Overall, Kalita has a diverse background in IT, with expertise in Hadoop, cloud support, system administration, and network security.

Khireshwar Kalita's education history is as follows:

1. National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) - A level in Computer Science (2003-2004)

2. Guwahati University - Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science (1999-2001)

3. Punjab Technical University - Master of Science (MSc) in Information Technology (No specific start or end year provided)

In addition to their formal education, Khireshwar has obtained several certifications:

1. Hands On Essentials - Data Warehouse from Snowflake (December 2021)

2. HDP Certified Administrator from Hortonworks (November 2016)

3. Hadoop Administration - Level 2 from IBM (August 2016)

4. RHCSA from Red Hat (October 2007)

5. SnowPro Core Certification from Snowflake (May 2023)

6. Informatica Cloud Lakehouse Data Management Foundation certification (No specific obtained month or year provided)

7. Kafka Fundamental certification from Confluent (No specific obtained month or year provided)