Lorin Dawson
Senior Delivery Solutions Architect, Digital Native Business
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLorin Dawson is a Senior Delivery Solutions Architect at Databricks with nine years of experience blending hands-on engineering, analytics, and customer-facing delivery to help digital-native businesses operationalize data at scale. A programmer and self-described aspiring mathematician, Lorin builds statistical models, migrates and tests data pipelines, and occasionally applies machine learning to solve business problems. He has progressed through success engineering roles at Databricks after earlier data and analytics consulting at EY, bringing both technical depth and client empathy to complex projects. As an active open-source contributor, he significantly extended SQLFluff to support SparkSQL and Delta Lake syntax—helping bridge tooling gaps for modern data stacks. Based in the Denver area, he combines a data-junkie’s curiosity with practical delivery experience, often focusing on making reproducible, auditable solutions for analytics teams.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of MississippiPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
linter10
spark-sql10
lint10
delta-lake10
sql10
python9
data-engineering8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sqlfluff/sqlfluff
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 63 commits, 64 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Lorin was heavily involved in extending the SQLFluff linter and auto-formatter to support the SparkSQL dialect. Their contributions included adding support for various DDL and DML statements such as `CREATE TABLE`, `DROP`, `ALTER TABLE`, `INSERT`, and others, including Delta Lake and DLT syntax. The user also implemented support for a broad range of clauses including `GROUP BY`, `ORDER BY`, `CLUSTER BY`, `DISTRIBUTE BY`, `HAVING`, and `PIVOT`. These changes significantly expanded the scope and functionality of SQLFluff to encompass the SparkSQL and Delta Lake ecosystem.
dialectslinterpypisql-lintertemplated
R7L208/dbtpcdi
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:89 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
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