Hadoop Administrator with 20+ years of experience in Big Data and Database Administration
1. Joginder Sethi
Email: at46@yahoo.com
Phone: (309) 663-6677
Current Key Skills: Hadoop Administration,SOLR, Hbase, Hive, Sqoop, Pig, Storm, KAFKA, HDFS, Knox,
Ranger, Falcon, Atlas, AD & MIT Kerberos, Openldap, and Oozie.
Nov 2010-Present: Developed and configured parallel distributed computing environments at State
Farm Insurance and Discover Financial Services.
Hadoop:
Experience in hardware recommendations for Hadoop.
Experience in understanding business requirements to design services and nodes needed
for Hadoop and related ecosystem.
Recent experience upgrading Hortonworks HDP and Ambari on Hadoop clusters.
Experience in installing, configuring, testing Hadoop components.
Experience in configuring and optimizing Solr, Hbase, HDFS, Oozie, Sqoop, Kerberos, and
Hue.
Experience in diagnosing problems with Hbase, Solr, Ooozie, Yarn, Storm, Kafka , and
Kerberos.
Experience in installation and configuration of Ranger to control centralized permissions for
various components of the cluster.
Implementing automation of Hadoop setup and configuration using Puppet.
Setting up Kerberos between Hadoop and Microsoft Active Directory, Centrify, and MIT
Kerberos with Openldap.
Able to process large sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data and support
systems application architecture.
Able to assess business rules, collaborate with stakeholders and perform source -to-target
data mapping, design and review.
Able to assess dataarchitecture including dataingestion pipeline design,Hadoop information
architecture, data modeling and data mining, and machine learning and advanced data
processing.
Technical Skills
Puppet, HDFS,Hbase, Solr, Hive, Storm, Kafka, Sqoop,Spark, MapReduce,Unix Administration (RHEL,
and Centos),andHortonworksdistributionof Hadoop.
Aster Data nCluster:
Experience in installing, configuring, testing nCluster components.
Designed,implemented,and supported 30-nodes cluster,four loaders and two queen nodes
(primary and failover) with 200TB of capacity.
Designed hardware and network for 30-node nCluster.
Setup LDAP configuration between nCluster and Microsoft Active Directory.
Setup firewalls on servers using iptables
Setup routes from worker nodes to access DB2 nodes through a Queen node.
Coded SQLMR java-code using Eclipse with Aster Data Development Environment plugin.
2. Upgraded several times with newer releases of nCluster.
Designed & implemented automatic copying of schemas from old system to new system in
a parallel upgrade.
Developed security system for nCluster
Developed an “autogrant” script that runs daily to enforce least privilege access model.
Technical Skills
SQLMR, Unix Administration (SuSE), Unix Shell Scripting, SQL, Query Performance Tuning,
Networking including bonding and VLANS.
July 1997-Oct 2010
13+ years of experience in Database Administration and Developer for very large and complex
databases in SQL Server 2008 R2, 2008, 2005, 2000 & 6.5.
Expertise in Database Administration on Production Servers with server configuration,
performance tuning and maintenance with outstanding troubleshooting capabilities.
Expertise in automating installation & configuration of SQL Servers using C# in Visual Studio.
Expertise in enabling Kerberos in SQL Server with Microsoft Active Directory.
Expertise in T-SQL writing stored procedures, triggers and functions.
Expertise in Administering SQL Server High Availability including Clustering, Mirroring, &
Replication.
Experience in using DMV and dynamic management functions for debugging issues with queries.
Worked extensively on Clustering and server consolidation. Troubleshooting production issues
and raising high availability.
Proficiency and expertise in SQL Server Replication, Backup/Recovery, Disaster recovery and
planning.
Worked on configuring SQL Server with minimum privileged access.
Handled multiple SQL Instances on Cluster environment for Server Consolidation projects built
on SAN using RAID levels.
Troubleshoot performance problems, fine-tuning of databases and index Analysis.
Experience in Batch processes, Import, Export, Backup, Database Monitoring tools and
Application support.
Created Linked Servers between SQL Server 2008 R2 & DB2. Also created DTS package for data
transfer between the two environments.
Working knowledge in Analysis Services (SSAS) & Reporting Services (SSRS).
Experience in supporting Very Large databases (VLDB) and troubleshooting the problems.
Strong experience in mentoring team members and writing documentation.
24 X 7 Production Database on Call Support
Technical Skills
Databases: MS Access, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM – DB2, Oracle, ER Studio
Languages: SQL, C#, Dot Net, VB, PowerShell, Java, Visual Studio, Eclipse
July 1994-June 1997
Strong technicalexpertise on databasesOracle (7/8i)on both Windows NT/ UNIX environments.
Also proficient in taking advantage of both Visual Basic and Unix Shell scripts.
3. Proficient in translating business requirements into logical, physical data models and ER
Diagrams.
Expertise in SQL, PL/SQL development
Setup an Oracle Parallel Server with large storage capacity.
24 X 7 Production Database on Call Support
Technical Skills
Databases: Oracle
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Unix Administration, Unix Shell scripting
Jan 90-June 1994
Enterprise Architect
Developedandimplementeddistributedapplicationarchitecture.
Helpedinprototype andactual implementationof anapplicationwiththe proposeddistributed
architecture.
Integrateddevelopeddistributedarchitecture with Coopers&Lybrandmethodology.
July78-Dec 89
Mainframe LanguagesSupport:
Automatedinstallationandconfigurationof mainframe languagesincluding COBOL,PL/1,&
Assembler.
Debuggedapplicationfailuresusingsystemdumpsof PL/1and COBOL.
Codedutilitiestoperform systemlevel tasks:Retrieve volumesfortapeswritten,performing
copyingof data betweenmainframe systems,printaconcise message inIMSonabends.
Developed averygoodunderstandingof variouscomponentsof anOS:Physical Memory,Virtual
Memory,Multi-tasking,AsynchronousProgramming,etc.
Technical Skills
MVS Architecture,Language support
Languages:PL/1, COBOL,JCL, SPF,Assembler
Education
Bachelorof Mechanical EngineeringfromDelhiCollege of Engineering,India
Bachelorof ComputerScience fromIllinois State University.