About the Authors

Shilpi Saxena is an IT professional and also a technology evangelist. She is an engineer who has had exposure to various domains (machine to machine space, healthcare, telecom, hiring, and manufacturing). She has experience in all the aspects of conception and execution of enterprise solutions. She has been architecting, managing, and delivering solutions in the big data space for the last 3 years. She also handles a high-performance and geographically-distributed team of elite engineers.

Shilpi has more than 12 years (3 years in the big data space) of experience in the development and execution of various facets of enterprise solutions both in the products and services dimensions of the software industry. An engineer by degree and profession, she has worn varied hats, such as developer, technical leader, product owner, tech manager, and so on, and she has seen all the flavors that the industry has to offer. She has architected and worked through some of the pioneers' production implementations in Big Data on Storm and Impala with auto-scaling in AWS.

Shilpi also authored Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra with Packt Publishing.

Saurabh Gupta is an software engineer who has worked aspects of software requirements, designing, execution, and delivery. Saurabh has more than 3 years of experience working in Big Data domain. Saurabh is handling and designing real time as well as batch processing projects running in production including technologies like Impala, Storm, NiFi, Kafka and deployment on AWS using Docker. Saurabh also worked in product development and delivery.

Saurabh has total 10 years (3+ years in big data) rich experience in IT industry. Saurabh has exposure in various IOT use-cases including Telecom, HealthCare, Smart city, Smart cars and so on.