Don Drake
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Greater Chicago Area United States
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Principal Big Data Consultant - Quantitative Research & Analytics at Allstate
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Technology / Software / Internet
Website
http://www.drakeconsult.com
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I bring the ability to see the ‘big picture’ as well as getting hands-on with programming and other technical details which makes me a must-have person on your team. Not only can I architect the technical solutions for the most complex business problems, I can also implement them as well. My entrepreneurial spirit is evident by creating successful solutions including the MailLaunder anti-spam service, Proximet (location based iPhone app), PushIt2Me iPhone app, and co-creating MobileMeridian, a network analysis tool for wireless carriers. This same work ethic carries over to the work I do for all of my clients. Specialties: Extensive knowledge in the following technologies: Spark, Hado...
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Spark ETL Techniques - Creating An Optimal Fantasy Baseball Roster

8 years ago • 8636 Views

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Shortening the feedback loop

Josh Baer • 7 years ago

Taking Spark Streaming to the Next Level with Datasets and DataFrames

Databricks • 8 years ago

Extreme Apache Spark: how in 3 months we created a pipeline that can process 2.5 billion rows a day

Josef A. Habdank • 8 years ago
Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Greater Chicago Area United States
Occupation
Principal Big Data Consultant - Quantitative Research & Analytics at Allstate
Industry
Technology / Software / Internet
Website
http://www.drakeconsult.com
About
I bring the ability to see the ‘big picture’ as well as getting hands-on with programming and other technical details which makes me a must-have person on your team. Not only can I architect the technical solutions for the most complex business problems, I can also implement them as well. My entrepreneurial spirit is evident by creating successful solutions including the MailLaunder anti-spam service, Proximet (location based iPhone app), PushIt2Me iPhone app, and co-creating MobileMeridian, a network analysis tool for wireless carriers. This same work ethic carries over to the work I do for all of my clients. Specialties: Extensive knowledge in the following technologies: Spark, Hado...
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fantasy baseball parquet etl spark sparksql rdd dataframe
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