Don Drake
Sr. Analytics Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorDon Drake is a Sr. Analytics Solutions Architect with 11 years of experience who blends big-picture technical architecture with hands-on implementation, currently advising customers at AWS from Chicago. He has built production-scale analytics and mobile solutions—from MailLaunder anti-spam and MobileMeridian network analysis to consumer iPhone apps—demonstrating both product-minded entrepreneurship and deep systems expertise. His toolset spans Hadoop ecosystem technologies (Spark, HBase, Hive, Pig), core databases and SQL tuning, cloud and virtualization, and native mobile development, enabling end-to-end delivery of complex data platforms. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous business problems into practical, auditable architectures and then take the code across the finish line. An operator at heart, he pairs carrier-grade networking experience with a developer’s fluency in Java, Objective-C, scripting, and automation.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (65)
python10
r10
big-data10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
spark10
apache10
analytics10
large-scale10
java10
scala10
jdbc10
hadoop9
apache-spark9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dondrake/mlb_stats_spark
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 months
eventsstatisticsfantasy-baseballspark-applicationsspark
dondrake/BigDataMaker
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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