Chris Hoshino-fish
Manager, Field Engineering, Specialist Solution Architects at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hoshino-fish is a seasoned data engineering and field engineering leader with 9 years of experience building and scaling high-performance, cost-efficient lakehouse solutions at Databricks. He currently manages the Specialist Solutions Architect team for Communications, Media & Entertainment, helping customers tackle the most complex data engineering and ML initiatives across diverse modern data stacks. Chris combines deep hands-on experience—authoring Python/Delta Live Tables pipeline examples and Spark/Scala ETL work—with a strategic pre-sales and consulting background supporting exabyte-scale deployments. Known for performance engineering and Delta Lake subject-matter expertise, he’s been recognized internally for top contributions and customer impact. Based in San Francisco with a Computational Mathematics BA from UC Santa Cruz, he balances technical depth with a curiosity for AI and practical pipeline reliability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Berkeley High SchoolUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (6)
etl10
data-pipelines10
data-pipeline10
python10
data-engineering10
spark9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
databricks/delta-live-tables-notebooks
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 31 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on modifying and updating existing Python-based code examples within the repository. The commits reveal the integration of a `dlt` module, suggesting a shift towards Delta Live Tables and data pipeline implementations. The changes demonstrate the user's work in ingesting and processing data, creating tables, and defining data quality expectations within the context of a data engineering pipeline.
chrishfish/delta-live-tables-notebooks
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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