1. Tarek Zanaty
tzantoot@gmail.com (516) 313 8356
PROFILE
20 years of IT experience as DBA / developer with wide variety of databases. 3+ years of strong professional
experience in Big Data Administration and Linux/Unix Systems Administration. Hands on experience on Hadoop
Ecosystem and Big Data Solution. Installation, fine tuning and configuration. Managed services for Infrastructure and
Big Data Clusters.An adviser of SAP Central Process Scheduling system (CPS /BPA/ RunMyJob/
CRONACLE) experience (5 years).
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sinai medicall assoicates, Queens NY August 2016-Present
Hadoop Administrators Lead (Contractor)
• Installed, Configured and Maintained Apache Hadoop (2.7.1) clusters for dev (8 nodes)/Prod (75 nodes) and Hadoop
tools like Hive (0.14.0), Hbase (1.2.4), Kafka (2.11.0.8.1), Flume (1.7.0) and Sqoop (1.4.6).
• Extensively involved in Installation and configuration of Cloudera distribution Hadoop NameNode, Secondary
NameNode, Resource Manager, Node Manager and DataNodes.
• Collected the logs data from web servers and integrated into HDFS using Flume.
• Worked on installing cluster, commissioning & decommissioning of DataNodes, NameNode recovery, capacity
planning, and slots configuration.
• Developed data pipeline using Flume, Sqoop and Java map reduce to ingest customer behavioral data and financial
histories into HDFS for analysis.
• Configured various property files like core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml, yarn-site.xml, mapred-site.xml and hadoop-env.xml
based upon the job requirement.
• Automating system tasks using chef to prepare cluster nodes to adhere to corporate hosts software release standard.
• Installed Spark on Yarn (2.0.2) and Storm (0.9.7) for fast and efficient jobs processing.
• Moved Relational Database data using Sqoop into Hive Dynamic partition tables using staging tables.
• Initiated POC to collect the logs data from web servers and integrated into HBASE using Kafka.
• Leading Hadoop team members to work with different groups like Security, DBAs, network, storage and business
groups to integrate Oracle database with HBASE to achieve desired SLA.
• Setup Kerbros 5 KDC security system for managing Cluster authenticating hosts, services and users.
• Installed Sentry to control ACL for Hive users.
Morpho/Safran, Anaheim, CA May 2016- August 2016
Senior Software Data Integration Engineer (Contractor)
• Managed the configuration process to properly set-up and run Jboss AS 4.2.3 on Oracle Linux 6.7
• Installed, enabled and tested PostFix mail to ensure successful communication with LDAP systems completed MBIS
and PRINTRAK BIO-METRIC software installation to interface with client software.
Long Island Medical Associated, NY DEC 2014 To April 2016
Hadoop Administrator (Contractor)
• Installed/Configured/Maintained Apache Hadoop clusters for application development and Hadoop tools like HBase,
Zookeeper and Sqoop.
• Setup Kerbros 5 KDC security system for managing Cluster authentication and Sentry for authrorization. Setting up
users, hosts and service keys as well as user groups to map them to business groups.
• Fine tuning Map-Reduce jobs for optimized performance
• Performed patching production environment from HDP 2.4.0 to 2.5.0
• Worked on Hadoop cluster scaling from 10 nodes in development environment to 16 nodes in per-production stage and
up to 86 nodes in production.
• Commissioned Data Nodes when data grew, decommissioned when the hardware degraded and rebalancing the cluster.
• Experienced in managing and reviewing Hadoop log files.
• Installation of various Hadoop Ecosystems and Hadoop Daemons (Hbase, Squirrle,ZooKeeper,Hive).

2. • Performed System Administrator on Linux (RedHat RHEL 7.0 GA) platforms.
• Using Cloudera Manager (CDH4) to support the environment
• Manage, deploy and configure infrastructure with Chef to ensure hosts uniform standards.
Southern California Edison, Irwindale, CA Jan 2010 To DeC 2014
Hadoop administrator, Oracle DBA, Linux admin (Full Time exployee)
• Installed/Configured/Maintained Apache Hadoop clusters for application development and Hadoop tools like HBase,
Zookeeper and Sqoop.
• Fine tuning Map-Reduce jobs for optimized performance
• Performed patching production environment from HDP 1.01 to 0.23.6 .
• Performed a Major upgrade in production environment from HDP 1.3 to HDP 2.0.
• Worked on Hadoop cluster scaling from 4 nodes in development environment to 8 nodes in per-production stage and up to
24 nodes in production.
• Commissioned Data Nodes when data grew and decommissioned when the hardware degraded.
• Experienced in managing and reviewing Hadoop log files.
• Installation of various Hadoop Ecosystems and Hadoop Daemons (Hbase, Squirrle,ZooKeeper,Hive).
• Performed System Administrator on Linux (Suse 10.1.2, RedHat RHEL 7.0 GA) platforms.
• Monitor cluster stability, use tools to gather statistics and improve performance.
• Handled importing of data from various data sources, performed transformations using Hive, Pig, loaded data into HDFS
and HBase.
• Responsible for cluster availability and experienced on ON-call support .
• Performed Oracle DBA day-to-day duties ( backup, database reorganization procedures, scripted
database alerts, and monitored scripts., database refresh)
• Leading Hadoop, Security, DB2 DBAs, Networks, Storage and business analysts to setup Hive and
can make data available in Hadoop/HDFS to be used Hive/SQL by business analysts.
Redwood Software, Morrisville, NC May 2006 to 2009
Senior Consultant (full time employee)
I went to variety of on sites clients across Unites States and implemented variety of Redwood installations,
training and knowledge transfer engagements. I Built CPS architecture to map Redwood best practice
document to client own enterprise infrastructure. Some client’s installations (e.g. Southern California
Edison SCE) were to setup and install different environments (Technical Sand box, Development, QA and
Prod) on different platforms (AIX, Windows 2003).
Also some of the deliverables included supporting staging (job monitoring), Scheduling (creating jobs) and CPS administration
(System design, CPS users maintenance, security (SOX compliance), creating time zone, schedulers maintenance, database
maintenance, monitor system performance, reporting, licensing, system migration and overlooking load balancing for all SAP
jobs across SAP systems). I Worked with UNIX/AIX (HA) and WINDOWS (Stretch Clustering) administrators to setup high
availability CPS systems for multiple environments.
PROCARE MEDICAL CENTER, NASSAU, NY AUG 2002 – APRIL 2006
Oracle Database Administrator (Consultant)
• Oracle 8i database Administration for WIN 2000 platform, my tasks involved installation for production and test
environment.
• Perform logical, physical backup, and data load. Setting users, roles, profiles and system support.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, New York, NY May 2001 – Jul 2002

3. Senior Lotus Notes Web Developer (Consultant)
• CRM System Interface, designed and developed an interface between Notes and CRM to enable blast email to CRM.
• IBD WebCasts and Email meeting notes, designed and developed an interface for storing and launching multi media video
conferencing where Notes, Java and CORBA were used.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
• Oracle DBA 9i OCP Certification, Prometric, 2006
• Lotus Notes Certified Professional, Parametric, 2001
• AIX 6.0, Linux Red Hat, TSM 6.1, TWS V8.5, CPS V(6, 7, 8), DB2 V10.
• Hadoop V2 , Hive, Hbase, Spark and Storm.
EDUCATION HISTORY
• Qualifications: Bachelor degree from Westminster University, London in Computer Science specialized in
Software Engineering.