Hi, I'm Parker Temple.

Content engineer at Databricks and competitive curler, based in the Greater Seattle area.

I work on documentation, AI harnesses, and content pipelines. Before that I spent about a decade in technical sales and field engineering, starting in Oracle's Class Of program and later leading Solution Architect teams. I studied computer science at UC Davis and I like turning technical depth into things customers can actually use.

Experience

• Content Engineer, Databricks
  2026 to present. Documentation, AI harnesses, and content pipelines.
• Lead Solution Architect, Databricks
  2024 to 2026. Digital native business, embedded product lead for the Serverless General Compute product line, and leader of emerging business scale workshops.
• Manager and Senior Manager, Field Engineering, Databricks
  2021 to 2024. Grew the Startups Solution Architect team from 7 to 15 people in a year, created the Field Services team, and later led the Emerging Digital Native team for Communications, Media, and Entertainment.
• Solutions Architect and Team Lead, Databricks
  2018 to 2021. Pre-sales engineering across Mid-Market and Commercial segments, with a focus on Apache Spark, data pipelines, and Delta Lake.
• Field Solutions Engineer, OverOps
  2017 to 2018. Live demos, proofs of concept, and technical sales support worldwide.
• Sales Engineer, Oracle
  2015 to 2017. Cloud, database, and middleware pre-sales through the Class Of program.

Education and skills

• B.S. Computer Science, UC Davis
  2011 to 2015
• Technical writing, large language models, generative AI
  Spanish (limited working), Japanese (elementary)

Writing

• Hello, world
  Nov 14, 2026

Elsewhere

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