Christopher Grant
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Grant is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling petabyte-scale data platforms. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on post-sales data engineering and architecture at Databricks, enabling Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and observability for large enterprises while contributing to open source. Proficient in Python, Spark, Kafka, Hive/Impala, Java, and Scala, he has a track record of designing robust ETL frameworks and operationalizing data lakes. Prior roles include leading Spark enablement and pipeline development at the Automobile Club of Southern California, highlighting his ability to bridge engineering teams and production operations. His background in computer science with a mathematics minor gives him a pragmatic foundation for solving complex distributed data problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, Minor Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science, Minor Mathematics at California State University, Fullerton
Github Skills (90)
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postgresql10
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python10
redash10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
data-driven10
javascript10
architecture10
data-engineering10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
christophergrant/databricks-trustedadvisor
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 8 months
christophergrant/hydro
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:8 releases, 201 commits, 27 PRs in 2 months
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