Jim Hibbard
Sr. Developer Advocate
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJim Hibbard is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Databricks with 11 years of experience building and communicating data and machine learning solutions. He transitioned from hands-on data engineering roles at Seattle Children's and Tiger Analytics into developer advocacy, bringing practical production experience to developer-facing content and tooling. His background in biology from the University of Washington informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to solving domain-specific problems in healthcare and research settings. Jim excels at translating complex pipelines and ML workflows into clear guidance that helps teams operationalize analytics at scale. Based in Seattle, he combines deep engineering know-how with a talent for storytelling and community engagement to bridge product, engineering, and user needs. Colleagues rely on him to turn nuanced technical tradeoffs into actionable best practices for real-world data systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Biology General, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology General at University of Washington
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Github Skills (99)
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flask-extensions10
mlflow10
ai10
dvc10
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incremental-learning10
machine-learning10
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icu9
apache-spark9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
JHibbard/website
Mar 2022 - May 2023
Delta Lake Website
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
lakedeltadelta-lake
delta-incubator/deltaray
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Delta reader for the Ray open-source toolkit for building ML applications
Contributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
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