Suresh Karakavalasa is a Big Data Solution Architect in IBM Systems Lab Services focused on the big data solution porting on IBM Power Systems. He has over 15 years of IT experience, with 7+ years of that experience in big data platforms. His key contributions are in design and development of open source platforms and strong technical skills in Hadoop and its ecosystem. He has experience in designing solutions on data warehouse migration to Hadoop, predictive analytics, healthcare and social networking data analytics, and providing end-to-end Hadoop cluster and application solutions to clients across several industries like banking, retail, telecommunications and healthcare.