About

Nitin Khandelwal is an accomplished engineering leader with over a decade of experience in distributed systems and big data engines. He is currently working as a Senior Software Development Manager at AWS (EMR), where he is responsible for leading the development of Hadoop and Hive technologies optimized for cloud. Prior to his current role, Nitin worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Qubole, where he led the development, QA, and sustenance of Hive, Tez, Pig, and Hadoop product lines. He also worked in different areas of Qubole's stack, including technical leadership, hands-on development, and customer-facing roles. Nitin led multiple core engineering teams at Qubole, offering high-quality offerings of these big data technologies optimized for the cloud. He also represented Qubole at a couple of conferences and was the engineering point of contact for one of Qubole's largest and most important customers. Nitin has a Master of Technology degree in Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering and Technology. He is highly skilled in software engineering, AWS, Apache Hive, Hadoop, big data, and QA. Nitin is an expert in the internals of Hive, Tez, Presto, Iceberg, and other big data engines. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies. If you are looking for someone with expertise in distributed systems and big data engines, Nitin Khandelwal is the person to contact.