About the Author

Bhushan Lakhe is a database professional, technology evangelist, and avid blogger residing in the windy city of Chicago. After graduating in 1988 from one of India’s leading universities (Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani), he started his career with India’s biggest software house, Tata Consultancy Services. Soon sent to the UK on a database assignment, he joined ICL, a British computer company, and worked with prestigious British clients on database assignments. Moving to Chicago in 1995, he worked as a consultant with such Fortune 50 companies as Leo Burnett, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, CNA Insurance, ABN AMRO Bank, Abbott Laboratories, Motorola, JPMorgan Chase, and British Petroleum, often in a critical and pioneering role.

After a seven-year stint executing successful Big Data (as well as Data Warehouse) projects for IBM’s clients (and receiving the company’s prestigious Gerstner Award in 2012), Mr. Lakhe spent two years helping Unisys Corporation’s clients with Data Warehouse and Big Data implementations. Mr. Lakhe is currently working as Senior Vice President of Information and Data Architecture at Ipsos, the world’s third largest market research corporation, and is responsible for the company’s Global Data Architecture and Big Data strategy. Mr. Lakhe is active in the Chicago Hadoop community and regularly answers queries on various Hadoop user forums. You can find Mr. Lakhe on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bhushan-lakhe/0/455/475.