Sumit is an Ex Gartner VP Analyst in Data Management & Analytics. As a part of Gartner Analyst - Sumit has advised  to hundreds of organizations and CXOs (CIO, CDO, CTOs) on Data Strategy, Data Architectures, Data Engineering and provided guidance, insights, trend analysis on best practices with technology to solve their complex data challenges.

Sumit spans the spectrum - from formulating data strategy with CDO/CTO teams to architecting, designing and building data platforms and solutions to writing, deploying and debugging code in 5 different programming languages.

Sumit has  more than 25 years of experience in the data and Software Industry in various roles spanning companies from startups to enterprise organizations in building, managing and guiding teams and building scalable software systems across the stack from middle tier, data layer, analytics and UI using BigData, NoSQL, DB Internals, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Data Science and middletier.

Sumit has  expansive experience in building, managing and guiding teams and building scalable software systems across the stack data layer, Analytics , ML, Data Engineering, DataOps, Data Architectures, Data Lakes, Data Lakehouses, NoSQL, DB Internals, Data Warehousing, Dimensional Modeling, Data Science and Java / J2EE aspects of the technology.

Hiked to Mt. Everest Base Camp in Oct 2016.

Blogs at https://sumitpal.wordpress.com/