Alan Choi
Lead Product Specialist at Databricks
California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Choi is a seasoned database and analytics leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-performance SQL systems for enterprise customers. As Lead Product Specialist at Databricks he led Field Engineering to commercialize Databricks SQL from development into a product generating over $100M in revenue, blending product strategy with hands-on technical enablement. He earlier helped pioneer real-time SQL on big data at Cloudera Impala and architected Hadoop-database integrations and zero-downtime upgrade techniques at Greenplum and Oracle. Based in California, Alan combines deep expertise in C, SQL/PLSQL, and Oracle with customer-facing leadership—often translating field feedback into product fixes and tools that accelerate adoption. Not obviously stated but consistent across roles, he excels at turning operational pain points into repeatable engineering solutions and enablement materials that scale across large field organizations.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Cornell University
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impala10
hadoop9
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Github contributions (2)
cloudera/Impala
Feb 2012 - Oct 2015
Real-time Query for Hadoop; mirror of Apache Impala
Contributions:367 commits in 3 years 8 months
hadoopimpala
ibmsoe/ImpalaPPC
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 commits in 1 month
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