Christopher Sharkey
Senior AI ML Architect, Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Sharkey is a Senior AI/ML Architect with 11 years of experience building and scaling analytics, big data, and generative AI solutions for enterprise customers. Currently in Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake after a multi-year tenure architecting analytics and AI/ML at AWS and Microsoft, he blends solution architecture, hands-on implementation, and presales to move proofs-of-concept into production. He has deep, cross-cloud expertise across Snowflake, AWS, and Azure and practical experience with streaming (Flink, Kafka, Kinesis), Spark/Databricks, data lakes/warehouses, and vector/semantic search stacks. Christopher maintains an active GitHub with demos and code samples, signaling a continuous maker mindset alongside strategic customer work. Trained as a software engineer with an early research background in genomics and toxicology, he brings both rigorous scientific thinking and product-focused engineering to complex data problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Engineering, Master's Degree Software Engineering at Penn State University
Github Skills (40)
java10
opensearch9
near9
analytics9
search-engine9
near-real-time9
aws9
restful9
elasticsearch8
cloudwatch8
cloudwatch-alarms8
microsoft-sql8
tsql7
architecture7
ingest7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ev2900/Iceberg_Glue_from_JARs
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:180 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 1 month
ev2900/OpenSearch_CloudWatch_Alarms
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 review, 27 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
cloudformation-stackdeploymentcloudwatchopensearchalarms
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