Louis Frolio
Sr. Staff Technical Instructor (L7) at Databricks
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLouis Frolio is a Sr. Staff Technical Instructor at Databricks with a decade of experience helping teams unlock the power of data and AI through hands-on training and enablement. He specializes in scalable machine learning with Apache Spark, data engineering, Databricks SQL, and platform administration, and has a track record of building technical learning programs for customers, partners, and sales teams. Prior roles at IBM, Talend, and EMC show deep expertise in IoT, big data analytics, and technical evangelism across North America. Louis blends formal analytics and applied physics training with practical instructional design, creating immersive workshops, bootcamps, and MOOCs that accelerate adoption. Based in Boston, he pairs enterprise-scale thought leadership with a practitioner’s focus on open source tooling and real-world deployments. An unexpected detail: his background includes specialized culinary training in international and classical baking, reflecting a blend of analytical rigor and creative craft.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sci.) Applied Physics, Master of Science (M.Sci.) Applied Physics at UMass BostonA.O.S International and Classical Baking, A.O.S International and Classical Baking at Johnson & Wales UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Michigan State UniversityMaster’s Degree Strategic Analytics, Master’s Degree Strategic Analytics at Brandeis University
Github Skills (33)
architecture9
spark9
storage8
big-data8
analytics8
delta-lake7
acid7
hive7
presto6
trino6
hadoop6
prestodb6
spark-ml5
pyspark4
vcenter3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
team-wolfpack/Predicting-Customer-Churn-with-Watson-Data-Platform
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
froliol/tech-talks
Aug 2020 - Sep 2023
This repository contains the notebooks and presentations we use for our Databricks Tech Talks
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 1 month
databricksnotebookstech-talksdata-science
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