Vishal Pathak - Serverless ETL and Analytics with AWS Glue: Your comprehensive reference guide to learning about AWS Glue and its features

Your comprehensive reference guide to learning about AWS Glue and its features

Vishal Pathak

Subramanya Vajiraya

Noritaka Sekiyama

Tomohiro Tanaka

Albert Quiroga

Ishan Gaur

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Vishal Pathak is a Data Lab Solutions Architect at AWS. Vishal works with customers on their use cases, architects solutions to solve their business problems, and helps them build scalable prototypes. Prior to his journey in AWS, Vishal helped customers implement business intelligence, data warehouse, and data lake projects in the US and Australia.

Subramanya Vajiraya is a Big data Cloud Engineer at AWS Sydney specializing in AWS Glue. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree specializing in Information Science & Engineering from NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, KA, India (Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum) in 2015 and obtained his Master of Information Technology degree specialized in Internetworking from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2017. He is passionate about helping customers solve challenging technical issues related to their ETL workload and implementing scalable data integration and analytics pipelines on AWS.

Noritaka Sekiyama is a Senior Big Data Architect on the AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation team. He has 11 years of experience working in the software industry. Based in Tokyo, Japan, he is responsible for implementing software artifacts, building libraries, troubleshooting complex issues and helping guide customer architectures.

Tomohiro Tanaka is a senior cloud support engineer at AWS. He works to help customers solve their issues and build data lakes across AWS Glue, AWS IoT, and big data technologies such Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Iceberg.

Albert Quiroga works as a senior solutions architect at Amazon, where he is helping to design and architect one of the largest data lakes in the world. Prior to that, he spent four years working at AWS, where he specialized in big data technologies such as EMR and Athena, and where he became an expert on AWS Glue. Albert has worked with several Fortune 500 companies on some of the largest data lakes in the world and has helped to launch and develop features for several AWS services.

Ishan Gaur has more than 13 years of IT experience in software development and data engineering, building distributed systems and highly scalable ETL pipelines using Apache Spark, Scala, and various ETL tools such as Ab Initio and Datastage. He currently works at AWS as a senior big data cloud engineer and is an SME of AWS Glue. He is responsible for helping customers to build out large, scalable distributed systems and implement them in AWS cloud environments using various big data services, including EMR, Glue, and Athena, as well as other technologies, such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive.

Akira Ajisaka is an open source developer who has over 10 years of engineering experience in big data. He contributes to the open source community and is an Apache Software Foundation member and Apache Hadoop PMC member. He has worked for the AWS Glue ETL team since 2022 and is learning a lot about Apache Spark.

Keerthi Chadalavada is a senior software engineer with AWS Glue. She is passionate about building cloud-based, data-intensive applications at scale. Her recent work includes enabling data engineers to build event-driven ETL pipelines that respond in near real time to data events and provide the latest insights to business users. In addition, her work on Glue Blueprints enabled data engineers to build templates for repeatable ETL pipelines and enabled non-data engineers without technical expertise to use these templates to gain faster insights from their data. Keerthi holds a masters degree in computer science from Ohio State University and a bachelors degree in computer science from Bits Pilani, India.