James Cross
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HELLO!

I’m a Big Data Engineer and Certified AWS Architect with a passion for all things cloud and all things data. I regularly design and implement huge scale streaming big data platforms and serverless cloud based applications.
I currently work as a Data Engineer at McKinsey & Company.
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My Skills
Exciting Things
My Skills

TECH I’VE WORKED WITH RECENTLY

AWS

AWS

(DynamoDB, Lambda, Redshift, Serverless)
Java

Java

Python

Python

Docker

Docker

Hadoop

Hadoop

Spark

Spark

Redis

Redis

Couchbase

Couchbase

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch

Exciting Things

I DID RECENTLY:

1. Working as CTO for a retail analytics startup, I designed and built a fully serverless scalable analytics stack on AWS based on:
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • Redshift
  • DynamoDB
2. Worked recently on a greenfield data warehouse as project lead based on the Cloudera stack including:
  • Impala
  • HDFS
  • YARN
  • aHive
3. We also employed a number of other scalable storage solutions including:
  • Spark
  • Redis
  • Elastic Search
  • Rabbit MQ
  • MongoDB
  • Kafka
  • Cassandra

MY RECENT ENGAGEMENTS

Gearstream

Gearstream

December 19, 2016
Mckinsey Digital Labs

Mckinsey Digital Labs

December 19, 2016
Scout
Scout

Scout

October 15, 2016
URBANE
URBANE

URBANE

December 1, 2015
Solirius
Solirius

Solirius

October 1, 2015
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I LOVE PLAYING WITH AND LEARNING NEW TECHNOLOGY

Web APIs (REST, JSON)

iOS (Objective C)

Machine learning & data mining

Android

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