Pranav Shukla

Pranav Shukla is a big data expert, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.

Pranav founded Valens DataLabs (http://valensdatalabs.com) with a vision to help companies leverage data to their competitive advantage. Valens DataLabs specializes in developing next-generation, cloud-based, reactive, and data-intensive applications using big data and web technologies. The company believes in agile practices, lean principles, test-driven and behavior-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery of sustainable software systems.

In his free time, he enjoys reading books, playing musical instruments, singing, listening to music, and watching cricket. You can follow him on Twitter at @pranavshukla81.