Joe Harris
Principal Analyst at BenchBox.dev
Saint Augustine, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoe Harris is a Database Performance Engineer and Principal Analyst with over two decades of experience optimizing enterprise data platforms and benchmarking real-world workloads and TPC-class standards. He has led performance and competitive analysis efforts at Databricks and AWS Redshift, improving scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). Joe builds automated benchmarking systems and translates usage metrics into product decisions, ensuring regressions never ship and driving measurable cost savings recognized internally. His background spans 24/7 global event pipelines, petabyte-scale Redshift deployments, and practical data warehouse architecture across Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, and SQL Server. Based in Saint Augustine, Florida, he combines hands-on engineering with thought leadership—publishing performance studies and advising partners on platform differentiation. A measure-focused pragmatist who believes "cache rules everything," he quietly accelerates platforms by finding the highest-impact change points others overlook.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
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athena10
python10
mysql10
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databricks10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BenchBox-dev/BenchBox
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
BenchBox is a "benchmarking toolbox" that makes it simple to benchmark analyitic (OLAP) data tools with SQL and dataframes.
Contributions:2 releases, 41 reviews, 158 PRs in 6 months
benchmarkingdataframedataframesolapsql
joeharris76/azkaban_examples
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Simple examples of Azkaban worklflows, including AzkabanCLI
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
azkaban
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