SunnyData
Ben Marchant is an experienced Solutions Architect and Team Lead at SunnyData since January 2025, previously serving as the Director of Data Engineering and Lead Data Engineer at 84.51˚ from April 2015 to December 2024. Prior to this, Ben held various roles at dunnhumbyUSA, including Associate Director and Senior Associate, after an internship as a Business Analyst at BMW Manufacturing in mid-2009. Early in the career, Ben worked as a System Administrator at The University of Alabama from 2005 to 2009, providing comprehensive technical support and developing systems management solutions. Ben holds a Master of Science in Enterprise Integration from the Manderson Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from The University of Alabama.
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SunnyData
SunnyData stands as a beacon in North America's Databricks Data Cloud consulting ecosystem, focusing on transforming the Data Engineering and Analytics development life-cycle. Our mission? Help Databricks customers drive business outcomes faster using the Databricks Lakehouse by implementing a highly scalable and repeatable architecture to bring their advanced analytics, ML and AI projects to life(production) and empowering business and technical teams with the right end-user tools. The core of any successful AI, ML, BI or Data Science project lies in a strong fundamental Data Engineering practice and architecture. AI/ML and analytic projects require quality, trusted data, which can only be fed by resilient, scalable and reusable data pipelines, which often gets overlooked by data teams rushing to the finish line. We transition complex data projects from the lab to real-world impact. How? By laying a strong Data Engineering foundation we ensure these advanced technologies are implemented effectively and drive business outcomes. We are a company founded by data architects and engineers with a proven track record of implementation and revenue growth in our careers. Our commitment to Databricks is unwavering - it's not just a platform for us; it's our passion, our focus and the only platform we will consult and deliver on. This singular focus allows us to harness Databricks' full potential, allowing customers to be successful, add more use cases and deepen their partnership with Databricks. Specializing in: - Data Engineering - Data Migrations to Databricks - Data Science and GenAI Strategy - Data & AI Governance with Unity Catalog Focused Expertise in: - Healthcare & Life Sciences - Financial Services - CPG/Retail