Amit Nithianandan is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Wibidata as a contributor to the Kiji project, Wibidata’s open source framework for building Big Data applications on Hadoop and HBase. Prior to joining Wibidata, Amit was the lead engineer for search and data at Zvents, now a part of Stubhub (an eBay company). At Zvents, Amit worked to improve the search infrastructure, relevance and data processing most notably building a data warehouse and BI solution leveraging a variety of Hadoop tools and technologies.