About the Authors
Thirukkumaran Haridass currently works as a lead software engineer at Builder Homesite Inc. in Austin, Texas, USA. He has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been working on the Google Cloud Platform for more than 3 years. Haridass is responsible for the big data initiatives in his organization that help the company and its customers realize the value of their data. He has played various roles in the IT industry and worked for Fortune 500 companies in various verticals, such as retail, e-commerce, banking, automotive, and presently, real estate online marketing.
Several people supported the authors in their endeavor to write this book. First and foremost, thanks to the awesome team at Packt for helping the authors from the beginning to the end in writing this book. Thanks to the executive leadership team at Builder Homesite, Inc. and its key members Krishna Murthy, Ric Lara, Kamal Kantalwala, David Wu, Feng Ye, and Peter Brumme for setting a vision to take the reporting and analytics in the organization to the next level and providing the necessary guidance in the execution of the projects in big data and analytics. Thanks to the awesome teams from EX2 Outcoding from Costa Rica and EX2 Solutions Pvt Ltd from India who designed and developed awesome applications using Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform for our customers and for sharing their thoughts and experiences of Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, and data science. Thanks to Vijay Rajarathinam for providing the Python code samples used in this book.
Eric Brown currently works as an analytics manager for PMG advertising in Austin, Texas. Eric has over 11 years of experience in the data analytics field. He has been working on the Google Cloud Platform for over 3 years. He oversees client web analytics implementations and implements big data integrations in both Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. Eric has a passion for analytics, and especially for visualization and data manipulation through open source tools such as R. He has worked in various roles in various verticals, such as web analytics service providers, media companies, real-estate online marketing, and advertising.