Chris Koester
Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolChris Koester is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks with a decade of experience designing and delivering data warehouses and modern Lakehouse platforms across Azure and cloud environments. He has a strong consulting background leading architecture and engineering engagements at firms like 3Cloud, BlueGranite, and DMI, guiding clients through data strategy, infrastructure design, and development best practices. Based in Michigan, Chris blends hands-on technical delivery with customer-facing solution leadership, helping teams operationalize data engineering and analytics workloads at scale. A former U.S. Coast Guard Gunner's Mate, he brings disciplined problem-solving and mission focus to complex enterprise data challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Applied Computer Science, Certificate, Applied Computer Science at Purdue UniversityBS, Informatics, BS, Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University
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Github Skills (55)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BlueGranite/tpc-ds-dataset-generator
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Generate big TPC-DS datasets with Databricks
Contributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 10 months
datasetsdatabrickstpcdataset
cjkoester/dlt_metaprog
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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