Christopher Shehu
Senior Data Engineer building governed, AI-ready lakehouse platforms on Databricks and Azure.
about
Platforms that outlast the engagement.
I'm a Senior Data Engineer at Climb, a Databricks partner focused on modern data platforms and production AI. I own data engineering workstreams end to end, from requirements through design, build, deployment and handoff.
I came up self-taught: Epic analyst, then BI developer, then principal-level data engineer. Most of my work has been in regulated industries like healthcare and pharma, where governance and reliability aren't optional.
Metadata-driven pipelines
Consolidated 108 pipelines into 5 with a single reusable framework.
Less reporting overhead
Cut reporting overhead for a major hospital network.
Governance by design
Unity Catalog and Microsoft Purview for secure, compliant, discoverable data.
Built to hand off
CI/CD, clear standards and documentation so the next team can run it.
stack
What I build with
- platform
- DatabricksDelta LakeUnity CatalogLakeflow / DLTWorkflows
- languages
- PySparkSQLPython
- cloud
- AzureData FactoryPurviewGCP
- modeling
- Medallion architecturedbtDimensional modeling
- delivery
- Azure DevOps CI/CDDatabricks Asset BundlesGit
- ai
- LLM appsVoice AIn8nLocal models
certifications
Credentials
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate2026
- Databricks UC Upgrade Delivery Specialization2026
- Databricks Snowflake Migration: Preparation, Assessment, Execution2026
- Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals2024
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals2021
- CompTIA Project+lifetime
side projects
Things I build after hours
Tessy — distributed home AI assistant
A voice assistant running across Raspberry Pis at home, with speech-to-text, a custom persona and multiple operating modes.
AI phone agent
A voice agent that answers calls, qualifies leads, books appointments and logs everything to a CRM with no manual data entry.
Persistent memory for local LLMs
Long-term memory for LM Studio: stores past conversations locally and brings relevant context back across sessions.
writing
Blog
Notes from the field on lakehouse engineering, governance and building with AI.
- soonFirst post in progress.