Akon Dey

Akon Dey is a highly experienced Architect and Engineer with more than 25 years of expertise in R&D, engineering, and product development across various countries like the USA, Australia, and India.

He is an accomplished entrepreneur with a background in working for both startups and large corporations, showcasing deep technical knowledge in areas like big data, low-latency and stream processing, and database systems in clustered and large-scale distributed environments.

Akon has taken on leadership roles in engineering initiatives for enterprise-grade database systems catering to OLTP, OLAP, data warehousing, big data analytics, and real-time systems, with a focus on cloud and cluster infrastructure, data repositories, scalability, high availability, provisioning, caching, and web-based UI products.

His specialties include Big Data, Hadoop, MapReduce, Clusters, Data Stream Processing, Object-Oriented Databases, Database Internals, Compilers, User Experience Design, Storage, Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, and more.

He has a strong educational background with qualifications like a Post-Graduate Diploma in Software Technology, Computer Science, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information Technology, and a Master of Information Technology (Research) with a focus on Database Management Systems.

Akon Dey has held key positions such as Chief Systems Architect at Visa, Architect/Engineer at Awake Security, Engineer at Platfora Inc., and Research Engineer and Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He has also worked at other prestigious organizations like Yahoo! Inc., Versant Corporation, Patni Computer Systems, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.