Jithesh Kollarkandy is an experienced software design and development professional with over 22 years of industry experience. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Kerala, India. Throughout his career, Jithesh has worked in a range of senior technical leadership roles, building teams from scratch and designing flagship products on cutting-edge technologies. He has a particular interest in the latest developments in the IT field and is skilled in various areas of expertise, including C/C++/UNIX, Big Data, Hadoop and Big Data/NoSQL/HBase/Accumulo/Hadoop batch and real-time, Storm, Kafka, and Zookeeper. His experience includes working as an independent software consultant through IN Consulting at Terragon Group, Senior Manager - Data Platform Engineering at Bahri, Engineering Manager and Big Data Architect at Opus Consulting Solutions, and Associate Vice President - Architecture at Impelsys. In his free time, Jithesh enjoys listening to music and reading books, as well as playing cricket and badminton.