Sumit Pal is a published author with Apress. He has more than 22 years of experience in software, from start-ups to enterprises, and is an independent consultant working with big data, data visualization, and data science. He builds end-to-end data-driven analytic systems.

He has worked for Microsoft (SQLServer), Oracle (OLAP Kernel), and Verizon. He advises clients on their data architectures and build solutions in Spark and Scala. He has spoken at many conferences in North America and Europe and has developed a big data analyst training for Experfy. He has an MS and BS in computer science.