Bhushan Lakhe is Senior Vice President of Information and Data Architecture at Ipsos, a global market research company headquartered in Paris. He has more than 25 years experience in software development life cycle management, enterprise architecture design and framework implementation, service management, data warehousing, and Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, HBase, Hive, Pig, SQOOP, MongoDB) implementation, having worked successively at Tata Consultancy Services, Fujitsu-ICIM, ICL, IBM, Unisys Corporation, and as a database architecture consultant to such clients as Leo Burnett, ABN AMRO Bank, Abbott Laboratories, Motorola, JPMorgan Chase, and British Petroleum. He received IBM’s 2012 Gerstner Award for his implementation of major big data and data warehouse projects. Lakhe is a Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop CDH4 and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, SQL Server Implementation and Maintenance. He is the author of Practical Hadoop Security. He is active in the Chicago Hadoop community and as a speaker at technical meetups and industry conferences. Lakhe graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.