Brian Clapper
President And Principal Consultant at ArdenTex, Inc.
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Clapper is a seasoned technology consultant and hands-on data engineer with 30 years of experience building everything from real-time ad bidding engines and product master-data systems to e-commerce sites and large-scale Spark data pipelines. As founder and principal of ArdenTex and a former Databricks staff data engineer and instructor, he blends software architecture, training, and end-to-end data engineering—leading migrations of hundreds of tables into Unity Catalog and mapping millions of LMS rows. Comfortable in startups and enterprises alike, he codes across Scala, Python, Ruby, Java, C and C#, and has organized regional Scala communities and international hackathons. Equally at home delivering training as he is writing build scripts and autograders for MOOC-style Spark courses, he brings pragmatic leadership, mentoring, and a track record of turning complex data and integration challenges into production systems.
30 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer and Information Sciences, B.A., Computer and Information Sciences at Temple UniversityUpper Moreland High School
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Github contributions (5)
spark-mooc/mooc-setup
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Information for setting up for the BerkeleyX Spark Intro MOOC, and lab assignments for the course
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:169 commits, 4 PRs, 165 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily involved the development of a build script and modifications to a Python-based autograder. They created a build script specifically for a course assignment and modified the existing autograder to work for a new course. The user's changes to the autograder included implementing changes in the autograder.
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bmc/grizzled-scala
Feb 2009 - Aug 2019
A general-purpose library of miscellaneous stuff for Scala.
Contributions:792 commits, 9 PRs, 164 pushes in 10 years 7 months
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