I am specialised in Big Data & Hadoop technologies. As CTO & Presales of Pragsis, my position allows me to get a deep understanding of how Hadoop can help companies to improve their business and reduce costs.
Apart from acquiring new technical skills (Hadoop system infrastructure, MapReduce development, DataWareHouse processes...), since I entered Pragsis back in 2010 I have had the opportunity to create the Big Data business line (now 50 people), developed strategic partnerships (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR), managed Hadoop projects, realized strategic and technologic consulting and developed Hadoop training program.
I am also committer of an Apache Hadoop project and lecturer in a Big Data master where I deliver 3 technical courses.
Hadoop consultant @ From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsFounder @ FormHadoop delivers complete and coherent Hadoop courses.
More information: http://www.formhadoop.es/ From May 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Madrid Area, SpainLecturer for a Big Data master @ Defined and delivered the following courses of the program:
_ Hadoop administration and tuning
_ Design Patterns with MapReduce
_ Hadoop & Datawarehouse : Hive, Sqoop. From October 2013 to Present (2 years 1 month) Las Rozas De Madrid Area, SpainBig Data / Hadoop Presales & CTO @ _ responsible of the infrastructure department.
_ lead strategic technological planning for Bidoop, our Big Data solution
_ responsible of Bidoop Labs: Big Data innovation center.
_ fostered innovation (in technology and processes).
_ in charge with the Bidoop documentation (technical & marketing) and the demos environment.
_ leads generation, presales meetings, PoC. From April 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 9 months) Madrid Area, SpainBig Data solution manager @ - Responsible of the infrastructure department: definition, configuration and deployment of all the Hadoop ecosystem software that compose our solution.
- Launched and developed the technology and training partnership with Cloudera, the main Hadoop distribution.
-> Pragsis is now the most important Cloudera partner in Spain.
- Managed the Hadoop/Cloudera training program in Pragsis.
- Management of an 11 Hadoop (using: HDFS, Map/Reduce, HBase, Hive, Chukwa) servers cluster project.
- Supervised the Big Data company web page layout.
- Presales meeting, response to tenders and POC.
- Technical interviews of applying candidates
- Helped to develop and define some java/Hadoop algorithms.
- Company data-center management : consolidation of the whole architecture, purchase of equipment, server (Linux and Windows) and network (switches and Cisco routers, iptables firewall) administration. From August 2010 to April 2013 (2 years 9 months) Madrid Area, SpainSystem engineer consultant, responsible of Linux servers Redhat @ - Enhancing Xen virtualization infrastructure (100 guests for 10 hosts): backup, monitoring, optimization, automation of the installations.
-> Time savings of 95%, halving the hardware needs increased stability.
- Redhat servers and Netapp filers administration.
- Installation of new open source solutions: OpenAis HA cluster, OpenVPN, ZFS storage, centralized management of servers with Cfengine...
-> Deployment in production of effective and free alternatives substituting aging and/or very expensive solutions. From January 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 8 months) Madrid, project for Mutua MadrileñaLinux system administrator @ Prosodie offers data processing solutions in the following fields : interactive voice response and outsourcing (www.prosodie.com)
Envolved in the creation of the Spanish outsourcing department in the team of 6 people and with the help of the French team :
- defined and installed the whole general Linux servers environment (server architecture, definition of basic and shared services, recovery process for the 24x7 team).
- installed linux servers (debian and redhat) and services: Apache, mysql, postfix, ftp...
- managed monitoring tools (nagios, cacti, netcool) and backup (Veritas Netbackup). From February 2008 to December 2008 (11 months) Linux system administrator @ Administrated the linux servers that offer service for the 8000 people working in the public administration ministry:
- designed and installed DNS, DHCP and LDAP services over 200 servers.
- developed the new distribution (centos 4.4) for those servers.
- designed and developed programs and process in order to migrate to the new distribution. From September 2006 to February 2008 (1 year 6 months) web developer @ OVH is the main French company as for web sites hosting.
Programed the web client application in perl, javascript, xml and xslt:
- corrected and improved web interface.
- developped an international buy-online web process. From May 2006 to August 2006 (4 months) System administrator @ Natexis Altaïr is a filial of Natexis Banque Populaire. It deals with banking information systems.
- installed and administrated Linux, AIX, Windows servers
- automated server installation through scripts programming (bash, vbs) and the software HP rapid deployment pack (RDP). It reduced installation time by around 95%.
- designed a service of automated windows backup: technical study and SLA document that followed ITIL standards. From January 2005 to March 2006 (1 year 3 months) End of study training @ Studied Caveat, a software that enables logical verification of C programs in order to increase the security of embedded programs. From March 2004 to July 2004 (5 months)
engineer, computer science @ ENSTA ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées From 2001 to 2004 Lycee ChateaubriandLycee Chateaubriand Sourygna Luangsay is skilled in: big data, machine learning, hadoop, linux, map reduce, Distributed Systems, NoSQL, Hadoop, Big Data, Linux, Machine Learning, Tomcat, MapReduce, Apache, High Availability, MySQL, Java, JavaScript, Bash, Cluster, Asterisk, Perl, XML, Cloud Computing, Red Hat Linux, Open Source, Big data
Websites:
http://practicalsystemadmin.blogspot.com/