Md. Rezaul Karim - Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics: Explore the concepts of functional programming, data streaming, and machine learning

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First published: July 2017
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Md. Rezaul Karim is a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He holds a BSc and an MSc in computer science. Before joining Fraunhofer FIT, he had been working as a researcher at the Insight Centre for data analytics, Ireland. Previously, he worked as a lead engineer with Samsung Electronics' distributed R&D centers in Korea, India, Vietnam, Turkey, and Bangladesh. Earlier, he worked as a research assistant in the Database Lab at Kyung Hee University, Korea, and as an R&D engineer with BMTech21 Worldwide, Korea. Even before that, he worked as a software engineer with i2SoftTechnology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

He has more than 8 years of experience in the area of research and development, with a solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures in C/C++, Java, Scala, R, and Python-focused big data technologies: Spark, Kafka, DC/OS, Docker, Mesos, Zeppelin, Hadoop, and MapReduce, and deep learning technologies: TensorFlow, DeepLearning4j, and H2O-Sparking Water. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, semantic web, linked data, big data, and bioinformatics. He is the author of the following book titles with Packt:

• Large-Scale Machine Learning with Spark
• Deep Learning with TensorFlow

Sridhar Alla is a big data expert helping small and big companies solve complex problems, such as data warehousing, governance, security, real-time processing, high-frequency trading, and establishing large-scale data science practices. He is an agile practitioner as well as a certified agile DevOps practitioner and implementer. He started his career as a storage software engineer at Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, and then worked as the chief technology officer at a cyber security firm, eIQNetworks, Boston. His job profile includes the role of the director of data science and engineering at Comcast, Philadelphia. He is an avid presenter at numerous Strata, Hadoop World, Spark Summit, and other conferences. He also provides onsite/online training on several technologies. He has several patents filed in the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems. He holds a bachelors degree in computer science from JNTU, Hyderabad, India, and lives with his wife in New Jersey.

Sridhar has over 18 years of experience writing code in Scala, Java, C, C++, Python, R and Go. He also has extensive hands-on knowledge of Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Zeppelin, Mesos, Docker, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2O, machine learning, text analytics, distributed computing and high performance computing.

Andre Baianov is an economist-turned-software developer, with a keen interest in data
science. After a bachelor's thesis on data mining and a master's thesis on business
intelligence, he started working with Scala and Apache Spark in 2015. He is currently
working as a consultant for national and international clients, helping them build
reactive architectures, machine learning frameworks, and functional programming
backends.

Sumit Pal is a published author with Apress for SQL on Big Data - Technology, Architecture and Innovations and SQL on Big Data - Technology, Architecture and Innovations. He has more than 22 years of experience in the software industry in various roles, spanning companies from start-ups to enterprises.