Shailendra Kadre is a senior IT and management consultant from Bangalore, India. He is the author of a 2011 Apress book, Going Corporate: A Geek's Guide, which covers IT operations management. He has more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing, IT delivery and operations, program management, pre-sales, and enterprise sales. Currently, he is working with Hewlett-Packard India as a solutions consultant. His current interests include enterprise printing solutions and business analytics.Shailendra earned his master's degree in mechanical engineering from Indian the Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He lives in Bangalore with his wife Meenakshi, daughter Neha and son Vivek. He can be… contacted at shailendrakadre@gmail.com .
Venkat Reddy is a post graduate in applied statistics and informatics technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ) Mumbai. He has more than 8 years' experience in Big Data analytics and several analytics software programs and tools including SAS and R. His major areas of expertise include credit risk model building, customer experience management, social media analytics, machine learning, NLP, text mining, and sentiment analysis. Some of his major projects include an analytics plugin for a GIS tool, text mining and Twitter sentiment on social media data, a football betting model, a money laundering scorecard, customer experience management, credit risk model building for… consumer credit cards, and consumer credit risk analysis using Tableau. He also has expertise in predictive modeling, social media analytics, and data analytics.Venkat is currently working with Trendwise Analytics in Bangalore, India, as manager of a Big Data analytics team.