Chris Dalzell
Senior Software Engineer at Champion
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Dalzell is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale, low-latency systems and machine learning pipelines across Java, Scala, Python, and modern web stacks. He has designed and productionized real-time recommendation engines (serving 70M recommendations/day at sub-100ms latency) and led migrations of Spark-based ETL/ML workloads from on-prem Cloudera to AWS/EMR. Comfortable across the full stack, Chris combines backend services, streaming (Spark Structured Streaming, Kafka), datastores (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis) and front-end technologies to deliver end-to-end solutions. He’s also managed teams and driven the introduction of predictive analytics into business processes, translating data science into reliable, maintainable software. Based in Indianapolis, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset focused on operational excellence and measurable business impact. An early career background in web and enterprise integrations gives him a rare blend of legacy modernization experience and cutting-edge ML systems expertise.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (17)
r-package10
sports-data10
r9
database8
time-series8
single-page8
scala8
spark8
apache-spark8
web-application7
angularjs7
apache7
css6
financial6
bootstrap6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cdalzell/Lahman
Jun 2014 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 review, 202 commits, 5 PRs in 7 years 11 months
r-packagerrstatsseandatabase
cran/Lahman
Sep 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 commits in 6 years 8 months
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