Christopher Chalcraft
Manager, Specialists Solutions Architects at Databricks
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Chalcraft is a data and solutions architect leader with 11 years of experience bridging geophysics, data science, and ML/GenAI deployments, now managing Specialist Solutions Architects at Databricks in Greater Vancouver. He progressed from hands-on geophysics and seismic processing roles through research and data science at Chevron and OpenGeoSolutions to senior solutions architecture focused on machine learning and generative AI. Christopher combines deep domain knowledge in geophysics (MSc) with practical cloud-native ML deployment experience, helping enterprises translate complex scientific workflows into scalable data platform solutions. Known for moving from research to production, he excels at enabling technical teams to operationalize advanced analytics at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Geophysics and Seismology, Master of Science (MSc) Geophysics and Seismology at University of CalgaryBSc Physics, BSc Physics at McGill University
Github Skills (23)
spark-framework8
spark-ml8
functional-programming7
package-manager6
pyspark6
ci-cd-pipeline5
datasets5
databricks5
spark5
apache-spark4
data-science4
home-manager4
geospatial4
pipeline4
databricks-notebooks4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cchalc/databricks-field
Mar 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:90 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 2 years 9 months
cchalc/nix-config
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 115 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 2 months
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