Rowan Sciban
Account Executive at Databricks
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolRowan Sciban is a Data & AI account executive with over a decade of experience moving from hands-on engineering to solution sales across three Canadian cities. Having spent 7+ years at Microsoft and now at Databricks, he combines deep technical fluency in cloud data platforms, Databricks, and analytics with a proven track record of driving enterprise transformations in Retail, Healthcare, Federal, Transportation and Energy. He previously served as a Cloud Solution Architect and instructor, helping organizations modernize data estates and architect ML/real-time solutions while briefing stakeholders from developers to senior executives. Rowan also contributes to open-source projects—improving accessibility in Visual Studio’s NuGet client and strengthening UI test automation for .NET MAUI—showing a practical commitment to developer experience. Trained in psychology with a BI/Data Analytics certificate, he brings a user-centered, research-informed perspective to data strategy and change adoption.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Psychology, Master of Science (MSc), Psychology at The University of CalgaryCertificate in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Certificate in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics at University of Calgary
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Github Skills (29)
accessibility10
nuget10
uitest10
xaml10
package-management10
maui10
net10
dotnet10
net-maui10
asp-net10
uid10
visual-studio-extension10
front-end-development10
dotnet-core10
appium10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGet.Client
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 21 commits, 66 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rowan primarily focused on improving the accessibility of the NuGet Package Manager UI within Visual Studio. Their contributions included fixing accessibility bugs, enhancing the user experience for screen readers, and adjusting tab order and automation properties. They also addressed high-contrast and focus-related issues and refactored the Solution Package Manager table for improved accessibility. Additionally, the user updated dependencies and addressed color contrast issues in the console.
dotnetnuget-clpackage-managercommand-line-toolsmsbuild
dotnet/maui
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rowan's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the automated UI tests within the .NET MAUI framework. They added and modified UI test galleries, implemented drag and drop gestures, and made improvements to the refresh view tests. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to keyboard handling and improved the overall test setup, including logging and retry mechanisms. These changes aimed at improving test coverage and reliability for the MAUI framework.
app-platformmauimulti-platformiosmicrosoft
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