Irfan Elahi

Irfan Elahi is a senior consultant in Deloitte Australia specializing 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 industries. He has worked on a number of projects in Australia 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...See more

Irfan Elahi is a senior consultant in Deloitte Australia specializing 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 industries. He has worked on a number of projects in Australia 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 such as Cloudera and Hortonworks. He has worked closely with clients' systems and software engineering teams using DevOps to enhance the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) processes and manage a Hadoop cluster's operations and security. In addition to his technology competencies, Irfan has recently presented at the DataWorks Summit in Sydney on the subject of in-memory big data technologies and in a number of meetups all around the world. He also remains involved delivering knowledge-transfer sessions, training and workshops about big data and machine learning, both within his 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. See less