Work Experience

Data Engineering Consultant and Trainer

Daniel Arrizza Consulting

March 2023 - Present

  • Databricks Authorized Training Partner
  • Training data engineers and data scientists in Spark, Delta Lake, and data engineering on Databricks
  • Helping companies build data pipelines and data lakes

Awards

  • Feb 2022 Teamwork
  • Apr 2021 Let the Data Decide
  • Mar 2021 Delta and Performance SME
  • Jul 2020 Teamwork
  • Feb 2020 Win Production Workloads with Delta Lake

Sr Staff Customer Success Engineer

Databricks

March 2019 - March 2023

  • Lent expertise to enterprise customers in Spark, Lakehouse, big data, analytics, and cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Taught certification webinars to thousands of customers in Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Platform Admin
  • Taught Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks at Data + AI Summit
  • Key technical SME for adoption of our Delta Lake product. Created GTM materials, ran workshops, built internal dashboards
  • Built a customer-facing analysis tool that diagnoses platform issues and suggests enterprise best practices
  • Developed an internal customer insights tool using ReactJS to help with forecasting, attribution, and account strategy
  • Improved the new product release processes and coordinated product migrations
  • Managed a team of Customer Success Engineers to achieve targets for enterprise clients on renewal rates, customer satisfaction, expansions, upsells, and new opportunities

Senior Consultant

AppDynamics

Apr 2017 - Mar 2019

  • Lead technical resource on complex enterprise IT implementation of APM (Application Performance Management) software
  • Cultivated deep relationships with customer stakeholders and champions - act as a trusted advisor towards both their technical and business goals
  • Increased adoption of the tool throughout client enterprise accounts
  • Developed internal tools as a side-project for creating client dashboards and data warehousing
  • Acted as an internal thought-leader around business analytics and browser monitoring
  • Mentored new and junior members of the team
Daniel Arrizza