Chris Wensel
Enterprise Architect at Freelance
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Wensel is an Enterprise Architect and seasoned founder with 18 years of experience designing large-scale data engineering, machine learning, and digital identity systems from startup to enterprise. He has led architecture and data acquisition at ID.me, built foundational telemetry and ML pipelines at Salesforce, and co-founded influential big-data projects and companies including Cascading and Driven. Chris combines deep standards knowledge (mDL, ePassport, OpenID/verifiable credentials) with hands-on delivery of privacy-preserving, HIPAA- and GDPR-aware data platforms. His work spans building commercial training curricula, patented graph-based optimizers for execution planning, and open-source ecosystems used by companies like Twitter, Netflix, and Stripe—demonstrating a rare mix of research-grade thinking and product-focused execution. Based in San Francisco, he continues to advise and freelance on identity, privacy, and large-scale ingestion systems while maintaining active open-source projects.
18 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
mapreduce10
hadoop10
tez10
parquet10
cascading10
desktop-application10
api10
data-processing10
aws-cloud10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
java10
fault-tolerant10
nodejs10
fault10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cwensel/docbook-framework
Dec 2008 - May 2012
Contributions:5 commits in 3 years 5 months
cwensel/cascading.jdbc
Feb 2009 - Jun 2009
Contributions:44 commits in 4 months
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