Chris Thomas
Senior Data Engineer
Mole Valley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Thomas is a Senior Data Engineer with over two decades in software engineering and a focused 4+ years building large-scale data platforms that process billions of transactions. At Spotify he designs, builds and operates production-grade pipelines in Scala, Apache Beam and GCP for business-critical metrics, and previously delivered similar high-throughput systems at Sainsbury’s and Aimia using PySpark/Spark on AWS. He combines hands-on optimisation (e.g., cutting a client’s pipeline runtime from 17 to under 2 days on Spark/EMR) with team leadership, devops ownership and a pragmatic approach to scalability and cost. As owner of a consultancy, he pairs commercial insight with deep technical skill across Python, Scala, Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Based in Mole Valley, England, he brings a track record of translating complex requirements into resilient, high-performance data solutions that quietly run at scale.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 2.1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 2.1 at University of SouthamptonA Levels, Maths - A, Physics - B, Chemistry - B, A Levels, Maths - A, Physics - B, Chemistry - B at Bridgwater & Taunton College
Stackoverflow
1,385reputation
131kreached
63answers
3questions
pyspark
top-5%
apache-spark
top-5%
Github Skills (108)
apache-spark10
python10
hadoop10
r10
big-data10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
spark10
apache10
analytics10
java10
large-scale10
scala10
jdbc10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LandRegistry-Attic/concept-titles-service
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 14 days
chrisheaththomas/jpegimagestomovie
Aug 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
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