Alex Bush
Data Platform And Engineering Lead
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Bush is a Solutions Architect and seasoned Big Data engineer with a decade of experience designing and delivering production-grade Hadoop and Spark solutions across cloud and on-prem environments. He specializes in building efficient Scala Spark applications, provisioning cost-effective Azure/AWS IaaS and PaaS data platforms, and implementing DevOps pipelines that scale for enterprise needs. Alex has progressed from Hadoop cluster administration to lead data engineering and consulting roles at companies like KPMG, Cox Automotive and Hortonworks, now shaping data strategy at MAS in New Zealand. A core developer of the open-source Waimak library, he brings both hands-on development and platform-level operational expertise, combining computational physics training with a pragmatic focus on reliability and cost-efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Physics (MPhys) Computational Physics, Master of Physics (MPhys) Computational Physics at The University of Edinburgh
English
Github Skills (83)
python10
ssh10
javascript10
nosql10
ansible10
database10
spark10
java10
scala10
big-data9
sql9
hdp9
automation9
data-analytics8
cloudera-manager8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexjbush/alexjbush.github.io
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 213 pushes in 7 months
CoxAutomotiveDataSolutions/vegalite4s
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Vega-Lite4s is a small library over the comprehensive Vega-Lite Javascript visualisation library, allowing you to create beautiful Vega-Lite visualisations in Scala
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
javascriptscalavega-litevisualizationvisualizations
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