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Sept 29–Oct 1, 2015 • New York, NY
Sridhar Alla

Sridhar Alla
Director, Data Science and Engineering , Comcast

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Sridhar Alla is director of data science and engineering at Comcast. A big data expert, over his career, Sridhar has helped companies large and small solve complex problems such as data warehousing, governance, security, real-time processing, high-frequency trading, and establishing large-scale data science practices. Previously, he was the chief technology officer at cybersecurity firm eIQNetworks and a storage software engineer at Network Appliance. Sridhar is a certified Agile DevOps practitioner and implementer. He is an avid presenter at conferences including Strata + Hadoop World and Spark Summit. Sridhar also provides onsite and online training for several technologies. He has several patents filed with the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems. Sridhar holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from JNTU in Hyderabad, India. He lives with his wife in New Jersey.

Sessions

4:35pm–5:15pm Thursday, 10/01/2015
How Spark is working out at Comcast scale
Spark & Beyond
 Location: 1 E20 / 1 E21 Level: Intermediate
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Sridhar Alla (Comcast), Jan Neumann (Comcast)
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Comcast uses Hadoop as the big data platform in several areas of its business. Their use cases have evolved in recent years and include personalization, clickthru analytics, modeling, and customer support initiatives, all adding up to billions of dollars in revenue. Read more.