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name: Chris Sharkey
short_name: ev2900
photo: '/assets/media/authors/ev2900.jpg'
github: ev2900
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophersharkey/
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**Chris Sharkey** is an analytics specialist solution architect at AWS. Chris spends his time helping AWS customer architect, proof of concept, build and performance tune workloads using AWS analytics services including OpenSearch.

When Chris isn’t helping customers, he is often found: learning about OpenSearch, building demos and code samples in his GitHub or spending time rock climbing, ice climbing and skiing.