Andrea Kress
Staff Technical Writer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Kress is a Staff Technical Writer in San Francisco with a strong engineering pedigree (MIT BS, Stanford MS) and five years focused on developer-facing documentation at Databricks. She combines hands-on coding ability—authoring examples in Java, Python, R, SQL and building Jupyter notebooks—with a habit of mining design docs and source code so subject-matter experts are minimally burdened. Andrea has a track record of turning large, unwieldy manuals into usable guides, creating white papers that clarify complex algorithms, and influencing API interfaces through clear, pragmatic documentation. Her background in product management, R&D, and data science gives her uncommon fluency across product, engineering, and customer domains, enabling her to advocate for users while contributing to product decisions.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS Engineering-Economic Systems, MS Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University
Github Skills (15)
incremental-learning10
apache-spark10
machine-learning10
mlflow10
model-management10
dvc10
python10
ai10
lifecycle10
ml9
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
azure9
docker5
databricks4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
databricks/files_in_repos
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 15 days
andreakress/mlflow
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Open source platform for the machine learning lifecycle
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
pythonlifecyclemlmachine-learningmachine-learning-lifecycle
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