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Eric Applegate

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Sr. Databricks Consultant at Walker Information
📍 Greater Indianapolis, United States

Eric Applegate is a Senior Databricks Consultant with a background as a data scientist, researcher, and statistical analyst. Holding masters degrees from Purdue University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he specializes in data engineering and predictive analytics. Colleagues describe him as brilliant, creative, and hardworking.

Outside of his consulting work, Eric is passionate about education, serving as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Indianapolis. He is driven by a deep curiosity to understand how things work and uses data to find opportunities for improvement in various domains, from engineering to customer retention.

Unique Fact: Eric is a recipient of Purdue Universitys Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching, recognizing his outstanding contributions as an educator.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Sr. Databricks Consultant
Job Level
Middle
Location
Greater Indianapolis, United States
Personality Overview

How Eric shows up

Decisive But Friendly
Driven But Considerate
Friendly But Fast

They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed

Priorities

Topics Eric cares about

Data Engineering
His recent work involves building and optimizing data pipelines in Databricks and Azure, backed by a Databricks Data Engineer certification.
Predictive Analytics
His career includes data science projects focused on predicting machine failures, customer clustering, and forecasting customer attrition.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Sr. Databricks Consultant
Walker Information
8-2022 - 10-2025
Sr. Data Scientist/Engineer
Allison Transmission
8-2021 - 12-2023
Adjunct Instructor
University of Indianapolis
1-2022 - 7-2022
Data Scientist
ThriveDX (formerly HackerU)
1-2020 - 12-2021
Data Scientist
TRIMEDX
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Media appearances

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Education
2015 - 2019
MS
Purdue University
2008 - 2010
MS
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Social presence
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