Alok is a Data Strategy expert with wide experience in defining and implementing the strategy at premier organizations. He has helped organizations move away from outdated legacy applications and leverage the power of cutting edge and open source technologies, making them compliant with industry regulation and access to Data reliably on demand fit for the purpose.

His technology background is around 17 years with industry leader service providers and captives like Infosys, IBM and Barclays. He has provided Data warehouse, business intelligence and Data analytics solutions for communications (Sprint, Nextel, Idea Cellular, Terayon), Logistics (DHL Worldwide, Airborne Express), Security (VeriSign) and Banking (Barclays) domains holding various positions as Tech lead, Analyst, Architect, Center of Excellence lead, Program Manager and Portfolio lead at Vice President level handling multi-million-pound budget.

He combines strong project management, hands-on technical acumen, interpersonal skills and ethics to build motivated and high performing teams that achieve business objectives efficiently. Crisp assessment of AS IS situation and identifying opportunities for efficiency improvement and cost benefits with innovative but practical and fit for purpose solution is his key strength.

He specializes in BigData, Open source ETL (Hive, Impala, Spark, Talend), Analytics (R, Python), Real time integration (Kafka, Flume, Spark Streaming) and visualization (Elasticsearch, Kibana) products. He also has a good background on Teradata, SQL, Abinitio, Informatica, Mainframe, Linux Systems, DevOps, Agile and continuous Integration. Alok has been a pioneer of product development credited with creation of in-house ETL tool for strategic BigData platform in Barclays.