Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar - Big Data Architects Handbook

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Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar has 12+ years of industry experience in analysis, designing, developing, integrating, and managing large applications in different and diverse industries. He has vast exposure of working in UAE, Pakistan, and Malaysia. He is currently working in ASIT Solutions as a solutions architect in Malaysia. He received his master's degree from Torrens University, Australia, and bachelor of science in computer engineering from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST), Pakistan.

He has cross platform expertise and achieves recognition from IBM, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. Fahad has received the following accolades:

• IBM Certified Big Data Architect - 2017
• Sun Certified Java Programmer - 2012
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer - 2009
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer - 2007
• Microsoft Certified Professional - 2005

He also contributed his experience and services towards as Member, board of director in K.K. Abdal Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences, Pakistan and is a board member of Alam Educational Society.

You can find him on LinkedIn at syedmfahad.

Albenzo Coletta is a senior software and systems engineer in robotic, defense, avionic, telecommunication fields. He has a master's in computational robotics models. He was an industrial researcher in AI. He was also a designer for a robotic communication system for COMAU, as a business analyst. He designed a Neuro Fuzzy system for financial problems (with Sannio University) and recommender system for major Italian Editorial groups. He was a consultant at UCID (Economic and Financial Ministry), He also made a Mobile Human Robotic Interaction System.

Giancarlo Zaccone has 10+ years of experience in managing research projects in both scientific and industrial areas. He was a researcher at CNR, the National Research Council of Italy, where he was involved in projects on parallel numerical computing and scientific visualization. He is a senior software engineer at a consulting company, developing and testing software systems for space and defense applications.
He holds a master's in physics from Federico II of Naples and a 2nd-level postgraduate master course in scientific computing from La Sapienza of Rome.

Thirukkumaran Haridass is an independent IT consultant based out of Chennai, India. He works with clients from various verticals to help them build big data and AI solutions for their business needs. He is also the author of Learning Google BigQuery published by Packt. Prior to becoming a consultant, he worked in USA for over 13 years and 6 years at Builder Homesite Inc, Austin, Texas, USA. He also worked for Fortune 500 companies such as JCPenney and Volkswagen as a consultant.

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Big data architects are the masters of data and hold high value in todays market. Handling big data, be it of good or bad quality, is not an easy task. The prime task before any big data architect is to build an end-to-end big data solution that integrates data from different sources and analyzes it to find useful, hidden insights.