Summary
Dave Abercrombie is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Oakland with nine years of experience specializing in database performance, tuning, and scalable analytics platforms. He has deep expertise with Vertica’s massively parallel column-store architecture and a track record of designing projections, dimensional models, and SQL that unlock parallel scalability for business and machine learning use cases. At Tapjoy he led analytics platform architecture and MicroStrategy deployment efforts; he currently applies that experience to high-scale data problems at Sharethrough. Comfortable bridging product management, developers, and DBAs, he excels at translating ambiguous requirements into quantitative, auditable solutions and clear documentation. His background in mathematics drives a scientific, analytical approach to performance troubleshooting and statistical analysis. He is active in the Oracle and local Big Data/ML communities, continually advancing his skills in data mining and predictive analytics.
9 years of coding experience