Christopher Hyzer
Corporate Vice President - Data Platform Engineer
Berlin, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Hyzer is a seasoned data platform engineer and enterprise architect with 11+ years building and securing large-scale Hadoop ecosystems for major insurers and financial firms. As Corporate Vice President - Data Platform Engineer at New York Life, he designs, deploys, automates and secures Hortonworks HDP clusters and integrates analytics tooling into enterprise landscapes. He brings deep operational chops in Kerberos/LDAP/AD security, Puppet automation, Ambari/Ranger policy management and JVM-based integration work from hands-on upgrades to 350-node migrations. Christopher pairs infrastructure-level Linux and virtualization expertise with application integration experience (Java, WebSphere, SAML) that enables practical, auditable solutions for sensitive data workloads. Based in Connecticut, he has a track record of turning complex compliance and security requirements into repeatable automation and operational patterns that reduce upgrade windows and risk. Notably, his background spans both low-level OS/agent development and high-level platform pattern design, giving him fluency across the full stack of enterprise data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology at Marist College
English
Github Skills (12)
apache-atlas10
javas10
graph-database10
java10
graph-traversal10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
apidoc9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
api9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TJBChris/FreHDDisk
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 10 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years
TJBChris/YTReference
Aug 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:29 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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