Scott Kahler
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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SeniorScott Kahler is a Principal Technical Account Manager with 11+ years of hands-on experience across application development, database administration, and systems engineering, now focused on helping strategic customers adopt and scale Aerospike. He has deep expertise in back-end architectures and open source data platforms—Greenplum, Hadoop, MySQL—and a track record of driving large-scale, cost-saving implementations and operational excellence. Scott has moved between individual contributor, product, and leadership roles at Pivotal/VMware, Yugabyte, and Adknowledge, pairing troubleshooting grit with product-minded advocacy for customers. He also moonlights as the founder of Crazy Jackalope Games, turning 30+ years of RPG passion into a small business that channels his systems-thinking into creative game design. Known for clear technical communication (author of talks like "Hadoop 101") and a practical, cross-functional approach, he excels at translating complex distributed systems into deployable, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
greenplum10
parallel10
postgresql10
data-warehouse10
autocomplete10
data-platform10
analytics10
compose10
database10
machine-learning9
warehouse9
databases9
sql9
mpp9
sql-query8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
skahler-pivotal/gpdb
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Greenplum Database
Contributions:48 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
mysqlsqlgreenplumdatabasegreenplum-database
skahler-pivotal/gpdb-sandbox
Apr 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
data-analysispythonsciencedata-sciencesql
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