I am a Big Data Engineer with two years of experience in the Hadoop ecosystem both as a consultant and a trainer. As a Hadoop consultant I have installed, configured and optimized Hadoop clusters for a famous UK insurance firm and a pharmaceutical company. Other works as a consultant include writing Pig scripts and Sqoop scripts to ingest data from an Oracle database into HDFS. As an Hadoop trainer I have delivered a large number of training courses both remotely on-line and on client site across Europe. Some of the courses I have delivered include "Operations Management with the Hortonworks Data Platform" and "Data Analysis with the Hortonworks Data Platform using Pig and Hive". I have experience as a full stack developer in web technologies including Java and NodeJS for writing REST API and Javascript, AngularJS and D3JS for the front-end. I have also worked for two months as a Lead Engineer of a small team of back-end developers on a project involving a NodeJS REST API for a worldwide media company based in UK. I have been contributing to the research community since the very beginning of my academic career by publishing two papers on agent-based networks and two others on semantic technologies and feature models. I am truly passionate about my work and always eager to learn something new and expand my knowledge. I enjoy mentoring younger colleagues. Specialties: Software engineering, Java, Scala, Python, Linux, Big Data, RESTful web services.

Big Data Software Engineer @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) London, United KingdomSenior Big Data Engineer @ I have covered numerous roles including "Full stack developer", "Big Data consultant", "Hadoop trainer" and "DevOps". As a Full stack developer, I have worked for three months on a dashboard to visualize Big Data analytics using Javascript and AngularJS for the front-end and NodeJS for the back-end. I have also worked for two months, as a Lead Engineer of a small team of back-end developers, on a project involving a REST API in NodeJS to provide image resizing capabilities for a worldwide media company based in UK. As a Big Data consultant I have installed, configured and optimized clusters for a famous UK insurance firm and a pharmaceutical company. I have also ingested data into HDFS from Oracle with Sqoop scripts and processed data with Pig running on Hadoop 2.0. I was also involved in numerous client site workshops where I have to deliver Hadoop training and to architect how to integrate Hadoop with the existing solutions. As an Hadoop trainer I have delivered a large number of training courses both remotely on-line, on client site across Europe and internally for upskilling younger colleagues. Some of the courses I have delivered include "Operations Management with the Hortonworks Data Platform" and "Data Analysis with the Hortonworks Data Platform using Pig and Hive" and "Developing Solutions for Apache Hadoop on Windows". As a DevOps, I have experience in configuring Linux Hadoop clusters on AWS and on bare metal machines. I have been using tools like Ansible and Vagrant for creating and configuring virtual development environments. From November 2013 to July 2015 (1 year 9 months) Sotware Engineer @ In the last three months I have worked with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Kafka and Zookeeper. For seven months I wrote RESTful web service in Java with Jearsey and I used TDD methodologies with JUnit and Mokito. I have used Scrum methodologies for planning my projects, Confluence to document them and Jira to keep track of the bugs. In the past I have wrote a little bit of PHP for supporting some legacy code and some Javascript and JQuery for some web applications. From January 2013 to October 2013 (10 months) London, United KingdomIntern @ Improving functionalities of the Feature models used in COSIMO (a code generation tool based on Feature Models) and the human computer interaction with the Feature diagrams graphical editor. From October 2009 to March 2010 (6 months) Catania Area, ItalyIntern @ Improving Cosimo (a code generation tool based on Feature Models), and Eclipse plugin for Feature diagrams. From March 2009 to August 2009 (6 months) Nice Area, FranceIntern @ Porting JADE, Java Agent DEvelopment Framework, and PRISMA, Piattaforma di Rete Integrata per Soluzioni Mobili Adattabili, on Windows Pocket Pc devices (from Java v.1.4.2 to v.1.1) From March 2006 to June 2006 (4 months) Palermo Area, Italy

Master's degree, Computer Engineering, honours (110/110 cum laude) @ University of Catania From 2006 to 2012 Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, honours (110/100 cum laude) @ Università degli Studi di Palermo From 2002 to 2006 Hight School, Science (Liceo Scientifico), 100/100 @ Liceo Scientifico Albert Einstein Palermo From 1997 to 2002 Giuseppe Santoro is skilled in: Java, Apache Pig, Hive, HBase, Apache Kafka, Sqoop, Big Data, Hadoop, REST, Linux, Machine Learning, Apache Spark, ElasticSearch, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible