Alex Bush
Solutions Architect at MAS - Medical Assurance Society
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
8 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 (111)
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data-analytics9
big-data9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexjbush/alexjbush.github.io
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 176 pushes in 7 months
CoxAutomotiveDataSolutions/datadriven
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
cox-automotiveautomotive
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