Syed Akram has over 3.8 years of experience as a Hadoop developer and administrator. He currently works at Zoho Corporation in Chennai, India. He has expertise in big data technologies like Apache Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Sqoop and Presto. At his current role, he is responsible for debugging and deploying software on highly scaled Hadoop clusters, designing automated testing frameworks, and tuning cluster configurations to ensure performance, stability and scalability. He also works on data ingestion from various sources, running queries on Hive and Presto, and replicating HDFS data across multiple data centers.