Experience

Cars.com

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer: Data

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  • Developed and deployed a software process to automate the collection of Dataset/Job lineage, Schema, and other metadata. Migrated 300+ Jobs at initial deployment and covers over 500+ Jobs running in production today. • Developed software that automatically updates documentation containing job, dataset, repository, and dag level information. Provides document coverage for over 500+ Jobs/Datasets and 30+ Repositories/DAGS. • Established team-wide standards for code review, code style, common ETL task structure, and AWS infrastructure patterns. • Led the coordination and delivery of multiple end-to-end projects to ingest, transform and serve data to various destinations for business stakeholders. • Developed and maintained projects involving Hashicorp Packer/Terraform to help automate and modularize data infrastructure involving AWS EC2, S3, and Glue. • Developed PySpark performance improvements to reduce job runtime by over 50% and reduce required compute by upwards of 30%. • Led design efforts to generalize common ETL tasks into modularized code to increase developer velocity and reduce development time. Reduced lines of code by over 60%. • Debugged various PySpark issues (some affecting all jobs in production) and led communication with the team and others in the data organization about solutions to address the issues. • Developed over two dozen reports for external third parties, including collecting requirements and revisions for the data as needed. • Led and contributed to various improvements to common shared code libraries resulting in reduced boilerplate, new/enhanced functionality, and stability. • Presented to the broader data organization various topics/POCS covering new data tools, data organizational trends, and general software engineering practices. • Engineered improvements to Airflow that reduced operational overhead for managing and re-running pipelines impacting several dozen DAGS.



Dealer Inspire

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Software Engineer: Data

  • Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

• Data Science Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Mar 2020



Argonne National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Coop: Cryogenics

  • Jan 2016 - Aug 2016