Amol Fasale has more than 4 years of industry experience actively working in the fields of big data and distributed computing; he is also an active blogger in and contributor to the open source community. Amol works as a senior data system engineer at MakeMyTrip.com, a very well-known travel and hospitality portal in India, responsible for real-time personalization of online user experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, and many more. Also, Amol has active hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Frameworks, Python, machine learning, Hadoop framework components, SQL, NoSQL, and graph databases. You can follow Amol on Twitter at @amolfasale or on LinkedIn. Amol is very active on social media. You can catch him online for any technical assistance; he would be happy to help. Amol has completed his bachelor's in engineering (electronics and telecommunication) from Pune University and postgraduate diploma in computers from CDAC.