What People Say

"I've had the pleasure of working with Soumil over the past year, and his impact in that relatively short time has been significant. He played a key role in advancing Zeta's lakehouse initiative, helping modernize our multi-tenant data ingestion and scalable data architecture. His work directly improved our ability to scale the data platform efficiently and accelerated several critical analytics use cases. In addition to his technical contributions, he has been instrumental in raising the bar for knowledge sharing - both within the organization and with the broader engineering community. He consistently demonstrates strong ownership, a proactive mindset, and a willingness to step in wherever needed to drive results. He brings high energy, reliability, and a rare balance of deep technical skill with an execution-focused approach."

"I managed Soumil on Zeta's data platform team, where he built our multi-tenant Iceberg ingestion platform that AWS later published as a customer case study. He's a serious engineer who also happens to be a great teacher, which is how he ended up speaking at re:Invent and building a large following in the data community. He's one of the best data engineers I've worked with, and any team would be lucky to hire him."

"Soumil has been an incredible advocate for Apache Hudi and the open-source data engineering community. His content has helped thousands of developers understand complex data lakehouse concepts. His dedication to creating high-quality educational content is truly remarkable."

"I've worked closely with Soumil, and he shows the judgment, speed, and ownership you'd expect from a strong lead. He moves fast, jumps into ambiguity without overthinking it, and isn't afraid to try things out quickly to unblock progress. When things got messy — unclear ownership, shifting requirements, tight deadlines — he stayed persistent, pulled the right people in, and kept the work moving. He brings a genuine growth mindset. He's gone deep into Spark internals, join strategies, and performance tuning through hands-on experiments and by learning from others on the team. His ownership shows up everywhere, not just on what's assigned. During the lakehouse ingestion effort, he led the project end-to-end, flagged risks early, and filled gaps whenever needed. He also picked up adjacent workflow optimizations that weren't technically in his scope because they were bottlenecks and fixing them made the overall system stronger. He shares what he learns through blogs, brownbags, and day-to-day conversations, and that lifts the team around him. Soumil is reliable, proactive, and committed to making the system better. I'd work with him again on any critical path project, no question."

"Soumil is an exceptional engineer whose versatility and reliability truly stand out. During our collaboration on the Lakehouse project, I witnessed firsthand his impressive range of skills across analytics, automation, and DevOps. What sets Soumil apart is not just his technical capabilities, but his remarkable ability to be an active listener and quickly grasp complex concepts. His approach to problem-solving is methodical and thorough, diving deep into new technologies and frameworks with enthusiasm and dedication. Whether facing challenging deadlines or technical hurdles, Soumil consistently delivers high-quality solutions while maintaining a collaborative spirit. What I particularly value about working with Soumil is his ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights, making him an invaluable bridge between technical and business requirements. I highly recommend Soumil for his technical expertise, quick learning ability, and excellent collaborative skills."

"Soumil not only possess incredible technical skills, but his dedication and willingness to share knowledge is truly inspiring. He goes above and beyond to ensure that everyone he works with understands the concepts and intricacies of Apache Hudi along with the myriad of AWS technologies (most notably AWS Glue). On top of this, he approaches every interaction with an extremely positive and humble attitude; he makes everyone aound him want to continue to grow. Every engineering org would benefit from having someone like Soumil on their team."

"I've worked alongside Soumil for the past year on a complex, large-scale data lakehouse initiative - and he's one of those engineers who genuinely raises the bar for everyone around him. Soumil doesn't just write code - he architects systems with real intentionality. Cost, scale, performance, operational readiness - he's thinking about all of it, and he challenges the status quo when the architecture demands it. He drove a warehouse-to-lakehouse migration that delivered meaningful cost savings while improving flexibility - and he did it at petabyte scale with thousands of tables across global tenants. What really stands out to me is how he shows up beyond the code. Soumil presented at AWS Support Day NYC on building lakehouse systems at scale - on short notice - and delivered a polished, impactful session. He's very active at publishing technical learning content on YouTube and other platforms because he genuinely wants to teach and elevate others. That's rare. He's proactive, communicates with clarity, and brings energy to every engagement. I'd recommend Soumil to anyone looking for a data engineering leader who can architect at scale, drive real business outcomes, and make the people around him better."

"New to Apach Hudi, I am trying to resolve a hudi deduplicate issue at my work and posted my challenges in hudi slack group. Soumi was very generous in sharing his script with me and also guided me in the right direction in a call. I am able to use his script to resolve the issue. I then went through more than 10 youtube videos on hudi and it saved me tremendous time to be familar with hudi. I consider him a great leader in hudi and aws big data space. Thank you for sharing so much knowledge with the community!!!"

"Soumil is very high skilled person having great knowledge on various technologies, especially Elastic Search and Python (He is really a Pythonist). He is great helping nature guy and he share all his knowledge stuff to us and looking at his blogs and videos, I have achieved and learned many things. I can highly recommend following Soumil and stay connected with him to gain more knowledge and don't miss it. I am giving below links which I followed for my project purpose"

"I've worked with Soumil for a few months now and consider myself fortunate to have worked under his leadership. He is a fantastic mentor, an expert with AWS and Python and a great leader. He is a natural teacher who has generously shared his knowledge with everyone, for which I am very grateful. I've learned a lot about cloud computing, design patterns, and other new technologies from him. He has this contagious passion in learning and positivity that spread throughout the team."

"I've got to give a huge shoutout to Soumil! 🌟 This guy's a legend, he's been an absolute champ at helping me out with all sorts of questions. His knowledge game is strong, seriously, I'm yet to stump him with anything! He's not just smart, but he's got this awesome way of breaking down the most complex stuff. Super curious and always on the lookout to level up his skills, I've learned a ton just by chatting with him. If you're ever in need of someone who knows their stuff inside out and genuinely loves what they do, hit up Soumil. Trust me, you won't be disappointed! 🚀"

"I have been working with Soumil for the past 4 months and am always impressed by his attitude, by his mindset, by his thirst for technical and professional knowledge. His leadership qualities like providing a glimpse of the solution before any project and constantly backing up the team from external factors are excellent. He has a teacher within him, who loves exploring and sharing interesting stuff with everyone. I never had a week where I did not see any new thing whether it is in AWS services or some RND on other technical stuff. I joined as an Elasticsearch developer in his team but now I am growing up as a cloud data engineer too. It is great fun when you have someone like Soumil as your mentor, I highly recommend him."

"Great leader, Best mentor and Good Person. What can I say about him other than this. I have been working with Soumil for like the past 3 months now. In these months, he has taught me so many new technologies like he introduces new technology on Cloud everyday, he also mentors me on my career. He knew my qualities and pushed me to work on it to make it better. He always pushes me to learn something new everyday, like he is a big believer in learning and teaching others. He is highly adaptable, encouraging, supportive, and an effective leader. I learned a lot from him as a person, as a developer. He has expertise, and knowledge in the field of Python, AWS, Flask etc. etc, which he always shares with us, as I said earlier, that he always believes in teaching others whatever knowledge he has, and the way he handles all the situations is genuinely remarkable. He has earned everybody's respect through his skills and value. I look forward to seeing the team continue to grow under his vision and leadership."

"Soumil is true professional in every sense of the word.He is a very good communicator and can handle any situation.we have worked together for various projects.I highly recommend him."

"Energetic, knowledgeable, and proactive are words I use to describe Soumil. As a fellow graduate student at the University of Bridgeport, I had the pleasure to experience first-hand Soumil's expertise in Python. His critical thinking and extensive understanding of Python concepts are impressive. As the organizer of the 2019 UB Hackathon, I witnessed Soumil leading his team on the development of a very complex and useful system. I am confident that Soumil's dedication and work ethics will take him far."

"Soumil has a very deep and thorough understanding of cloud (AWS) technologies and python with a unmatched zeal to learn and teach latest technology and pass it on to whole team. Soumil has great enthusiasm to implement new learnings in a very simple manner which is easy to understand and handle by all the team members. He is a team player and great mentor who is always eager to train new minds with patience and efforts."