Software engineering leader & senior technical architect with 15 years of product development (8 years in management), working on Big Data & analytics products. Track record of bringing breakthrough products & technologies to market. Industry recognition through publications, patents and presentations in international conferences. Graduate education in engineering and computer science. Experience includes: • Built a team of 10 engineers from scratch. Managed up to 20 engineers, including offshore • Architected and built big data platforms spanning search technologies, RDBMS, Data Warehouses and NoSQL technologies. Experienced designing for all four V’s of big data • Data Technologies: NoSQL (Hadoop, HBase, MongoDB, Pig, Hive, Spark), Data Warehouse (Redshift, Netezza), Databases (DB2, Oracle), Search (PLS, Solr), ETL (Pentaho, DataPipeline), BI (Tableau, Jaspersoft) • Cloud: AWS, IBM SoftLayer and private clouds • Architecture: SaaS, SOA, RESTful web services • Programming: Python, Java, Perl, JavaScript, Node.js, Angular.js • Agile evangelist and certified Scrum Master Hackathons: • Launch Hackathon, San Francisco, 2014 - Finalist (14 of 167 teams) - Talkies - Product to monetize expertise • Big Data and Analytics Hackathon at IBM - Targeted marketing campaigns using customer purchase behavior, geo-location and social footprint

Head of Engineering @ From 2014 to Present (1 year) Sr. Manager, Engineering @ From 2007 to 2014 (7 years) Software Engineering Manager @ From January 2005 to June 2007 (2 years 6 months) Santa Fe, New Mexico AreaTechnical Lead & Senior Software Engineer @ From May 2003 to December 2004 (1 year 8 months) Senior Software Engineer @ From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Software Engineer @ From 1999 to 2002 (3 years)

Leadership and Management Program @ University of California, Berkeley From 2011 to 2013 Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering & Computer Science @ University of Florida From 1997 to 1999 Bachelor of Engineering @ Hindustan College of Engineering From 1993 to 1997 Kamal Gajendran is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Big Data, NoSQL, MongoDB, Perl, Python, Software Development, SaaS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Java, Bioinformatics, Scrum, SDLC, Databases, Scalability