Summary
Laxminarayan Cheruku is an Associate Director and platform lead in analytics with over 11 years of experience and a decade focused on big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning. He combines hands-on expertise in Hadoop ecosystems (Spark, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig), NoSQL, and search technologies (HBase, Solr, Elasticsearch) with practical experience running and securing production clusters across Apache, Cloudera, and AWS EMR. At Novartis he provides technical leadership and makes complex design decisions while mentoring platform engineers, building on prior senior roles at Nielsen and high-growth startups. A certified data scientist from INSOFE and recognized among India’s top big data engineers, he also brings applied skills in NLP, text mining, predictive analytics and R. Notably, his background spans both research and product environments—from IIITB and Infosys Labs research to scaling data platforms for enterprise and consumer-facing services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Program in Big Data Analytics & Optimization, Certificate Program in Big Data Analytics & Optimization at International School of Engineering (INSOFE)
B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering at Kakatiya University
MTECH Networking and communication, MTECH Networking and communication at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
English, Spanish