Cal Grimes

Solution Architect

Solution Architect working at the intersection of AI, data, and scalable software systems.

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Projects

Showcasing impactful projects and technical achievements.

Ecommerce Hot Sauce

Ecommerce store built with Vue, Nuxt, Firebase, Contentful CMS and Stripe.

Full Stack

Web Dev

Grafana Loki Logging With Python

A medium article project that demonstrates logging from a Python application to Loki using Docker Compose. It includes services for Loki, Grafana, Minio, and a custom Python log generator.

Backend

ELK Stack on AWS

A medium article project that demonstrates setting up an ELK stack on AWS using Ubuntu VMs. It includes services for Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash.

Backend

Experience

Professional journey and career timeline.

Solution Architect (Risk Finance & Treasury)

Barclays•United Kingdom

2025 - Present

Solution ArchitectureEnterprise Architecture+10 more

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Technical Integration Analyst

ITV•United Kingdom

2024 - 2025

OracleEBS+6 more

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Software Developer

VLDB Solutions•United Kingdom

2022 - 2024

Manipulates tens of thousands of SQL queries in a single instance using Java. SQL Dialects are converted in multiple stages and tested using JDBC

AzureJava+6 more

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Blogs

Thoughts on AI, software engineering, and building in public.

Data EngineeringAzureDatabricks+2

ETL Pipeline and Natural Language Querying with Databricks, Azure, DBT and Airflow

This article details the full end-to-end project to create an ETL pipeline and query your data with Natural Language

December 9, 2024

AWSELK StackElasticsearch+2

Quick Start - Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) on AWS

This guide shows the process of setting up the ELK stack on AWS in under 15 minutes.

May 10, 2024

CloudAzureDevOps

Set up a DSC and configure a desired state

In this project, I complete the Azure Exercise - Set up a DSC and configure a desired state.

September 27, 2023

Skills

Key skills that define my professional identity.

AWS

Build and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure applications on Amazon Web Services.

Python

Develop robust backend services, automated logging tools, and data processing scripts.

Java

Build high-performance applications and manipulate complex data structures.

Vue.js

Craft interactive user interfaces and responsive single-page applications.

Docker

Containerize applications for consistent environments and simplified deployments.

SQL

Manage and organize relational databases efficiently for data-driven applications.