Brendan Barsness
Sr. Solutions Architect at Databricks
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Barsness is a senior solutions architect with 13 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native data and analytics systems for large public-sector clients. He specializes in multi-cloud data lakehouse architectures, ETL/ELT automation, and governance, and has driven modernization and cloud adoption across Azure, AWS, and Databricks environments. Brendan pairs deep technical chops—Databricks, AWS, Azure, data science certifications, and experience with Spark and graph analytics—with customer-facing advisory skills to translate mission needs into production analytics products. His background spans defense and diplomacy use cases, from $750B budget analytics and cyber threat detection to enabling the U.S. Department of State’s data-driven decision making. Expect a pragmatic architect who blends hands-on pipeline engineering and orchestration with enterprise governance and a knack for turning legacy systems into scalable analytic platforms.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Psychology Minors: Economics Sociology, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology Minors: Economics Sociology at Virginia TechMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Old Dominion University
Github Skills (15)
virtual10
vdi10
endpoint3
bus3
flask2
heroku2
rest-api2
api2
python2
transform2
restful2
json1
typescript1
gis1
geospatial1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bcbarsness/sbcgerontology
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:82 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
bcbarsness/GerontologyML
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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