Dylan Ford
Principal Data Engineer at Aimpoint Digital- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Aimpoint Digital
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United States
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Data Infrastructure and Analytics
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Data Engineer
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Jan 2023 - Present
Florida, United States
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Senior Data Engineer
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May 2022 - Jan 2023
Florida, United States
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The Walt Disney Studios
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Engineer
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Jun 2018 - May 2022
* Kubernetes containers for sftp / api data ingestion from Facebook, Snapchat, Youtube, Google (Campaign Manager, Search Ads, Drive / Sheet and Google Big Query), Wavemetrix (curated social media insights) and others * AWS S3 for data storage and file transfers * Python, Scala and SQL data transformation and performance tuning in Spark utilizing Databricks compute engine * Airflow dag development for scheduling and alerting * Big Data processing - Kafka to Spark Structured Stream… Show more * Kubernetes containers for sftp / api data ingestion from Facebook, Snapchat, Youtube, Google (Campaign Manager, Search Ads, Drive / Sheet and Google Big Query), Wavemetrix (curated social media insights) and others * AWS S3 for data storage and file transfers * Python, Scala and SQL data transformation and performance tuning in Spark utilizing Databricks compute engine * Airflow dag development for scheduling and alerting * Big Data processing - Kafka to Spark Structured Stream and DLT (Delta Live Table) * Gitlab cicd setup * Databricks admin including access management, cluster config via api / UI, instance migration * Python data quality test automation library and framework * Tableau data visualization development and validation * Production support for several data science, film production and marketing analytics business units * Airflow and Databricks to Slack integration for production and test automation alerting / messaging Show less
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ANZ
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Australia
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Quality Assurance Manager
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Feb 2013 - Jun 2018
* Managed a team of Data / Quality analysts and automation developers to ensure correct reporting to various global regulators * Hired and worked hands on with test automation development team to setup data quality regression test automation using Java, Selenium and Cucumber. Significantly reduced manual testing to minimal effort and arranged up-skilling of manual test team with automation skills. * Built Java / Selenium test automation framework for Trade flow support application that… Show more * Managed a team of Data / Quality analysts and automation developers to ensure correct reporting to various global regulators * Hired and worked hands on with test automation development team to setup data quality regression test automation using Java, Selenium and Cucumber. Significantly reduced manual testing to minimal effort and arranged up-skilling of manual test team with automation skills. * Built Java / Selenium test automation framework for Trade flow support application that monitors quality of data reported to global regulators * Collaborated and managed the engagement with several internal and external teams performing non-functional testing (DR, Security / Pen Test, Performance, and Volume). * Controlled the test environment across complex global markets landscape including up to 50 trading venues feeding into the reporting engine via Murex and WallStreet trade settlement platforms. * Projects included several in house built Regulatory Reporting Engine Platforms, reporting to several global regulators including CFTC and ESMA Show less
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Test Lead / Manager
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Nov 2009 - Dec 2012
Key Projects included: SunGard Quantum Reimplementation (Vendor) and Treasury Platform Remediation (In-house) | Asset and Loans Administration (ALA) Core Platform Replacement – Catalyst Program (Fidelity) | Finance GL Replacement – Catalyst Program. Started as a Technical Test lead, promoting to Test Lead, then Test Manager.
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Commonwealth Bank
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Australia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Risk Test Manager | GDW Test Lead
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Jan 2007 - Nov 2009
Key Projects included: Anti-Money Laundering / Counterterrorism Financing Program | Risk Enterprise DataMart implementation | Credit and Operational Risk BAU releases | Core Banking Modernisation (Group Data Warehouse) implementation | Various Group Data Warehouse (GDW) projects.
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Motability Operations Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Test Lead
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Jun 2006 - Dec 2006
Project: Online Dealer upgrade
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Westpac
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Australia
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Test Lead / Risk Test Manager
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Dec 2003 - May 2006
Project: Coin Financial Planning software implementation and upgrades
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BT
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Australia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Test Analyst
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2000 - 2003
Project: Wrap online funds administration upgrades Unit Trust Administrator (2000)
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Education
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University of South Australia
BMan, Management