About the reviewer

Ravishankar Nair's prowess with big data platforms and his passion in applying technology to solve complex data challenges has earned him the tag of Hadoopean. Based in the U.S., Ravi has 22 years of technology experience. He was responsible as SVP for Business Intelligence for a global consumer group of a fortune 500 Financial organization. He is an active big data and Spark blogger, and speaks at international data conferences (he has presented to over 8,000 data enthusiasts) and webinar presentations. Ravi is an ACM member and is the CEO of PassionBytes, a US-based distributed computing solution company. Ravi runs many big data-focused user groups, is an Amazon-certified solution architect associate and Hadoop/Spark certified professional.