John Benninghoff
Staff Technical Solutions Engineer at Databricks
California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Benninghoff is a Staff Technical Solutions Engineer and senior data architect with 12 years of experience designing and migrating enterprise-scale data lakes and modern ETL platforms. He has led high-impact migrations at AWS Professional Services for strategic accounts—including Workday, Salesforce, Genentech, and Apple—helping customers transition from secure on-prem Hadoop to S3-centered architectures that saved millions and cut time-to-insight from weeks to days. A self-taught technologist and clear communicator, he combines hands-on cluster and performance tuning experience from MapR, Cisco, and Cray with AWS Data Analytics and Solutions Architect certifications. He is comfortable bridging sales, professional services, and engineering to deliver practical, automated solutions and even created a cluster validation tool adopted across a services organization. Based in California, he brings a pragmatic focus on cost reduction, scalability, and governance while continually exploring new technologies to squeeze more value from data.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Humboldt State University
Spanish
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Github Skills (38)
data-platform10
mapr10
validate10
autocomplete9
checker9
browser8
language-server-protocol8
linter7
vim-plugin7
windows7
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vim7
language-server7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jbenninghoff/cluster-validation
Aug 2013 - Aug 2019
Scripts to validate that a cluster is ready for MapR Data Platform installation
Contributions:159 commits, 6 PRs, 113 pushes in 6 years 1 month
installationmaprclusterdata-platformvalidate
MapRPS/archive-cv
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Scripts to validate a cluster is ready for MapR Hadoop installation
Contributions:2 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 1 day
installationmaprhadoopclustervalidate
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