Irfan Elahi is a Senior Consultant in Deloitte Australia specialising in Big Data and Machine Learning.

His primary focus lies in using Big Data and Machine Learning to support business growth with multifaceted and strong ties to the Telecommunications, Energy, Retail and Media industry. He has worked on a number of projects in Australia in end-to-end life cycle to design, prototype, develop and deploy production-grade Big Data solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure to support a number of use-cases ranging from enterprise data warehousing, ETL offloading, analytics, batch processing and stream processing while employing leading commercial Hadoop solutions like Cloudera and Hortonworks. He has worked closely with clients’ system and software engineering team in DevOps space to enhance the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) processes and manage Hadoop cluster’s operations and security.

Additionally, Irfan is leading the Data-stream of Deloitte’s ClearLight platform to setup a multi-tiered and multi-tenant Big Data platform in Amazon Web Services based on best practices to facilitate firm’s strategic initiatives like trainings, managed services and prototyping for potential clients.

In addition to his technology competencies, Irfan has recently presented in DataWorks Summit in Sydney in 2017 about in-memory big data technologies and in a number of meetups all around the world. He also remained involved delivering knowledge transfer sessions, training and workshops about Big Data and Machine Learning, both within firm and at clients. He also has launched Udemy courses on Apache Spark for Big Data Analytics and R Programming for Data Science with more than 18,000 students from 145 countries enrolled in them.