Summary
Mushtaq Rizvi is a Lead Data Engineer based in Boston with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms for enterprises like Aetna/CVS Health. He combines deep Hadoop ecosystem and cluster administration expertise—Cloudera, Hortonworks and Pivotal—with hands-on data engineering skills in Spark, PySpark, HBase, Cassandra and ETL pipeline design. Early career achievements include a Cloudera certification, running secure Kerberos/Sentry/LDAP-enabled clusters for a South African financial client, and contributing tutorials and sandbox work at Hortonworks. At Aetna he progressed from Data Engineer to Lead, driving production data delivery and platform reliability across complex healthcare data landscapes. He also brings teaching experience from Northeastern and Tata Consultancy Services, where he led internal Hadoop training programs and optimized ML models in H2O. Practical, security-minded, and experienced at both administration and pipeline engineering, he bridges ops and data development to move analytics to production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Instrumentation and Control, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Instrumentation and Control at Manipal Institute of Technology
Master of Science (MS), Information Systems, Master of Science (MS), Information Systems at Northeastern University
English, Hindi