About the Reviewer

Ananth Gundabattula is a senior application architect in the Decisioning and Advanced Analytics architecture team for Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Ananth holds a PhD in Computer Science Security and is interested in all things related to data, including low latency distributed processing systems, machine learning, and data engineering domains. He holds three patents granted by USPTO and has one application pending.

Prior to joining CBA, Ananth was an architect at Threatmetrix and the member of the core team that scaled the Threatmetrix architecture to 100 million transactions per day, which runs at very low latencies using Cassandra, ZooKeeper, and Kafka. He also migrated Threatmetrix data warehouse into the next generation architecture based on Hadoop and Impala. Prior to Threatmetrix, he worked for the IBM software labs and IBM CIO labs, enabling some of the first IBM CIO projects onboarding HBase, Hadoop, and Mahout stack.

Ananth is a committer for Apache Apex and is currently working for the next generation architectures for the CBA fraud platform and Advanced Analytics Omnia platform at CBA.