Ian Preston
Delivery Solutions Architect at Databricks
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Preston is a Delivery Solutions Architect with nine years of experience building modern data platforms and analytics solutions, now focused on enabling customers at Databricks. He blends economics training and hands‑on engineering to design lakehouse architectures, metadata‑driven ingestion, and reproducible deployment patterns using Databricks, Terraform, and Python. At WCB‑Alberta he led a cloud migration to a Databricks/Azure lakehouse, introduced streaming CDC pipelines and Databricks Asset Bundles, and doubled analytic output from a single team through tooling and process changes. A Python and Spark enthusiast, he champions reproducible development environments, CI/CD for data pipelines, and practical ML governance from model evaluation to stakeholder communication. Colleagues know him for turning complex forecasting and policy questions into auditable, automated workflows and for running hands‑on workshops that raise organizational capability.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Economics, Master of Arts (MA) Economics at SFUBachelor of Arts (BA) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics at University of CalgaryDiploma Computer Engineering Technology, Diploma Computer Engineering Technology at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Github Skills (154)
forge10
prediction10
backend10
statistics10
regression-models10
espn10
conda10
hypothesis-testing10
recipe10
forecasting10
reactive9
pandas9
econometrics9
generalized-linear-models9
statsmodels9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ianepreston/stats_can
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Get Statistics Canada data into python (mostly pandas)
Contributions:217 commits, 353 PRs, 515 pushes in 4 years 8 months
statisticspythondata-analysisdata-scienceespn
ianepreston/wheretolive
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Where should I live next?
Contributions:58 commits, 39 PRs, 51 pushes in 8 months
reactjsreactnextjs
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