Summary
Colin Davies is a Database Architect with 11+ years of enterprise experience designing logical and physical data models, optimizing performance, and establishing data governance across Fortune 500 environments. He has led large-scale data warehouse and integration efforts at Amgen, Disney, and NASA JPL, bridging on-premises Oracle/Teradata systems with cloud platforms (AWS) and streaming integrations like Kafka. Currently at Insperity, he advises development and DBA teams on best practices, mentors peers, and drives standards that improve deployment reliability and analytics performance. His background combines hands-on database design and tuning with strategic architecture work—defining roadmaps, vendor rationalization, and applying automation and analytics (Python, Power BI) to operationalize insights. An MBA-holder with a long history of creating metadata and governance programs (Collibra) and production integrations, he brings both technical rigor and process-oriented leadership to complex data landscapes. Collected across industries from biotech to aerospace and entertainment, his pragmatic focus on measurable performance and data quality is a consistent, if sometimes underappreciated, differentiator.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Management Program, Technical Management Program at UCLA Extension
MBA General Business, MBA General Business at Keller Graduate School of Management
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Thomas Edison State University