Experience

Sovrn

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Jul 2023 - Present



Brooksource

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Jan 2023 - Jun 2023



Slalom Build

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal, Data Engineering

  • Feb 2022 - Aug 2022

  * Migrated Scala jobs running on AWS EMR 5/Spark 2 to spot.io Ocean for Apache Spark * Managed and mentored five Data Engineers * Cultivated Slalom Build's Denver Data Engineering culture * Migrated Scala jobs running on AWS EMR 5/Spark 2 to spot.io Ocean for Apache Spark * Managed and mentored five Data Engineers * Cultivated Slalom Build's Denver Data Engineering culture



Arrive Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Data Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - May 2021

  * Helped migrate infrastructure setup to Terraform for resiliency, automation, and disaster recovery * Supported Data Analysts in debugging and optimizing Apache Airflow jobs * Helped migrate infrastructure setup to Terraform for resiliency, automation, and disaster recovery * Supported Data Analysts in debugging and optimizing Apache Airflow jobs



Slalom Build

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal, Data Engineering

  • Jul 2019 - Mar 2021

  * Established ETL pipelines for consuming agronomic and geospatial data utilizing AWS Glue and Snowflake * Architected processes for consuming near real-time CDC events from upstream Oracle RDS instances to AWS Kinesis for downstream consumers * Led the development of COVID-19 analytical pipelines and dashboards based on over 40 disparate data sources * Managed and mentored a team of six Data Engineers * Helped build Slalom Build's Data & Analytics practice * Established ETL pipelines for consuming agronomic and geospatial data utilizing AWS Glue and Snowflake * Architected processes for consuming near real-time CDC events from upstream Oracle RDS instances to AWS Kinesis for downstream consumers * Led the development of COVID-19 analytical pipelines and dashboards based on over 40 disparate data sources * Managed and mentored a team of six Data Engineers * Helped build Slalom Build's Data & Analytics practice



Gaia Inc.

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Data Engineer

  • Mar 2019 - Jul 2019

  * Migrated data warehouse batch ETL processes to an event-based system * Supported the Data Science team in building and deploying recommendation systems * Migrated data warehouse batch ETL processes to an event-based system * Supported the Data Science team in building and deploying recommendation systems



Ibotta, Inc.

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Engineering Manager

  • Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

  * Defined the strategic vision for the department within Ibotta's Data & Infrastructure group* Grew and managed a team of six high-performing individuals, including three senior engineers* Stabilized the primary BI reporting pipeline leading to a rolling 30-day 99.9% uptime* Spearheaded the adoption of event-based architecture for microservices

• Senior Data Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

  * Led the migration from a Redshift Data Warehouse usage over to an S3 data lake utilizing Spark, Hadoop/Hive, and Presto* Tech lead for Data Engineering, representing the team in architectural decisions

• Big Data Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2017

  * Architected the company Data Lake solution to allow scaling the organization's data assets and Analytics group* Built the foundations for Ibotta's future event-based architecture* Pioneered the use of Airflow and evangelized its adoption and use across both Engineering and Analytics departments* Migrated existing ETL workflows to Airflow, eventually scaling to over 100x jobs a day



Return Path

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2015 - Oct 2016

  * Designed an AWS-based message queuing system to scale the processing of a high-volume email stream horizontally* Refactored receipt parsing system to allow for arbitrary parsing of emails* Developed web crawlers to automate scraping missing data points from Amazon product pages* Implemented classification and predictive models using Python and Hadoop

• Data Analyst

  • Jul 2011 - Dec 2014

  * Built model testing engines to help maintain and evaluate updates to models* Transitioned IP scoring similarity model from Engineering to Analytics using R with Hadoop Streaming* Developed processes for detecting and mapping marketing programs using Market Basket Analysis

• Software Engineer

  • Apr 2008 - Jun 2011

  * Architected and oversaw teams implementing Map/Reduce processes to allow real-time processing for collecting and aggregating IP-based metrics* Led the transition of product websites to support internalization and localization* Developed a sendmail mister to allow throttling and processing of high-volume mail streams



HD Publishing Group

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Programmer

  • Mar 2004 - Dec 2007

  * Administered and modeled MySQL databases and developed in-house solutions for MySQL replication * Designed and developed web-based GIS applications using address normalization and TIGER/Line data * Built online order processing systems capable of handling multiple, high-volume merchant accounts * Administered and modeled MySQL databases and developed in-house solutions for MySQL replication * Designed and developed web-based GIS applications using address normalization and TIGER/Line data * Built online order processing systems capable of handling multiple, high-volume merchant accounts



HD Publishing Group

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Developer

  • Aug 1999 - Dec 2002

  * Implemented web-based systems for real-time sales reporting * Developed web applications to perform background searches on disparate public record sources * Implemented web-based systems for real-time sales reporting * Developed web applications to perform background searches on disparate public record sources