NIRMAL KUMAR Nirmal Kumar is a lead software engineer at iLabs, the R&D team at Impetus Infotech Pvt. Ltd. He has more than 8 years of experience in open source technologies such as Java, JEE, Spring, Hibernate, web services, Hadoop, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, Strm, NoSQL databases such as HBase and Cassandra, and MPP databases such as Teradata. You can follow him on Twitter at @nirmal___kumar. He spends most of his time reading about and playing with different technologies. He has also undertaken many tech talks and training sessions on big data technologies. He has attained his master's degree in computer applications from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI), Kanpur, India and is currently part of the big data R&D team in iLabs at Impetus Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Read More Read Less