Chris Bedford
Founder & Lead Lackey At Data Lackey Labs
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Bedford is a founder and hands-on engineer with over two decades of experience designing and shipping data-intensive systems, now leading Data Lackey Labs from Mountain View. A Databricks Certified Spark Developer, he specializes in building big data pipelines with Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch and Scala while also bringing deep enterprise chops in Spring/Hibernate and distributed messaging. He co-authored patents in stream processing and mobile personalization, has founded multiple startups and led cross-border engineering teams, and still publishes technical writing on Spark and software practices. Comfortable moving between low-level performance tuning and product-level architecture, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a taste for automating the “monkey work” out of development processes.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Natural Language Processing (currently taking), Natural Language Processing (currently taking) at CourseraCertificate w/ Distinction, Business Administration, Certificate w/ Distinction, Business Administration at UC BERKELEY EXTENSION: Business Administration ProgramB.S., Computer Science., B.S., Computer Science. at YALE UNIVERSITY (BS: Comp Sci.)
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Github Skills (72)
opensearch10
elasticsearch10
netflix10
search-engine10
java10
restful10
dynamodb9
benchmark9
docker9
dsl9
kubernetes9
mock-server9
java-client9
go9
scheduling8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
buildlackey/cep
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:32 commits in 28 days
buildlackey/site
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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