Justin Talbot
Principal Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Talbot is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 16 years of experience designing high-performance analytics and visual-analysis systems. He combines deep research credentials (Stanford Ph.D., multiple InfoVis publications and patents) with hands-on leadership roles at Tableau and Databricks, where he has driven query engine redesigns and cross-cutting architectural initiatives. Justin excels at turning R&D prototypes into production-grade features—leading teams to replace ad hoc query generators with general-purpose query languages and optimizers that enabled new analytics capabilities. He has repeatedly bridged product, research, and executive audiences, advising CTOs and presenting roadmaps to boards while also shipping core engineering work. An early founder who nearly spun out his Ph.D. work into a startup, he brings both entrepreneurial instincts and rigorous academic grounding to complex visualization and data systems problems. Outside of product leadership, his background includes VM/JIT research and contributions to high-performance R and MapReduce implementations, reflecting a long-standing focus on performance at scale.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Brigham Young UniversityPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (9)
vega-lite10
plot10
vega10
charts9
visualization9
grammar9
svg6
canvas5
qml1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jtalbot/Labeling
Jul 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:3 commits, 3 comments in 11 months
jtalbot/riposte
Feb 2011 - Sep 2015
Contributions:614 commits, 12 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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