September 2015 Meetup

Thank you very much to Chartboost for hosting us at your very cool and unique location this month! We have some great speakers lined up for the first half of the meetup and then we'll dive into community-proposed talks for the last half.

Tech Talk:

Getting Healthy with Hadoop

Hear a technical deep-dive on MyFitnessPal's use of big data technologies like Hive, Presto, and Spark to derive the insights needed to keep their users fit and healthy. You'll learn how they leverage their data and big data technologies to build the world's most comprehensive health and wellness application.

Speakers:

• Karthik Subramaniam- Data infrastructure lead at MyFitnessPal/UnderArmour Connected Fitness

• Poojit Sharma - Data engineer at MyFitnessPal/UnderArmour Connected Fitness

• Ashish Dubey - Solutions Architect at Qubole

Bios:

*Karthik Subramaniam leads the Data Infrastructure team within the Data Science & Engineering organization at UA Connected Fitness (formerly MyFitnessPal and MapMyFitness). The team specializes in building the data platform that provides insights into health & fitness data, enables batch and offline processing and drives health & fitness data products. Prior to working at MyFitnessPal, Karthik worked at Apple and various other tech companies. Karthik holds a M.S. in Knowledge Management from George Washington University, School of Engineering & Applied Science and a B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Maryland, College Park.​

*Poojit Sharma is a Data Engineer at UA Connected Fitness working on the Data Engineering & Science team which is responsible for building backend data platform and services which drive data products. Poojit initially joined MyFitnessPal as an intern from University of Southern California, where he got his M.S. degree in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval.

*Ashish Dubey is a Solutions Architect at Qubole with about 12 years of industry experience in various technology domains. Prior to Qubole Ashish has spent four years at Microsoft, contributed on Windows XP OS development. Later he worked for Teradata's consulting division and built several large scale BI/Big Data systems for some of the Fortune 500 clients in different industry verticals like finance, healthcare, retails and multimedia. For last 2 years Ashish has been helping Qubole customers, building large scale data solutions using technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Presto etc.