Experience

Palantir Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Engineer

  • Nov 2017 - Present



Canva

• Australia
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Data Scientist and Data Team Lead

  • Nov 2015 - Nov 2017

  - Solely responsible for designing and implementing new data warehousing pipeline and ETL process using Treasure Data and Python to merge MySQL, Redshift, Segment, MongoDB, Stripe and other data sources. This serves over 2 billion writes a month. - Managed data team by setting goals and direction for data engineers and growth analysts as well as interviewing all analyst candidates. - Mentored team of analysts on technical SQL and Python foundations as well as giving data exploration direction. - Solely responsible for selecting and maintaining third party product integrations with Treasure Data, Segment, Vero, Amplitude and Periscope. - Modelled user behaviour using MySQL, Redshift, Hive, Presto and Google BigQuery queries to assist leadership and product teams with business decision making and PR campaigns. - Presented data insights using visualisation tools such as Periscope, Excel, Python, Pandas, Numpy and Matplotlib to founders and management team to motivate data driven feature development. - Standardised statistical practices for experiments and A/B tests company wide using confidence intervals and Frequentist statistics. - Created and taught data onboarding workshops to equip all team members with the skills to do basic user data analysis and perform statistically sound product experiments. Show less



Freelancer.com

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Mar 2013 - Oct 2015

  - Increased revenue by 15% for matchmaking product group through researching and solving buyer liquidity problems in the business marketplace using Python and Redshift. Senior maintenance engineer on in-house analytics dashboarding tool using Python and Matplotlib. - Developed unique holiday promotions that increased revenue and user engagement by 500% during traditionally low seasons. - Developed matchmaking algorithms using Deep learning architectures such as Deep Belief Networks and Stacked Autoencoders using Python, Theano, Numpy and SciPy. - Engineered and maintained ETL process for Amazon Redshift Data Warehousing for matchmaking product group. Show less



University of Sydney

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Computer Support Analyst

  • Jan 2012 - Nov 2014

  -Promoted and raised awareness of new student IT infrastructure. - Provided friendly point of help for any IT issues to students in computing laboratories as well as ensuring laboratories were kept clean and tidy. - Analysed and assisted student body with setting up university wireless settings on mobile phones, tablet computers and laptops with different operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, Blackberry and iOS. - Utilised ITSM, Chips and Active Directory in documenting and tracking down escalated student and staff IT problems. Show less



KPMG Australia

• Australia
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Analytics Intern

  • Nov 2012 - Feb 2013

  - Worked in the Data Analytics team within the Forensics service line focusing on processing and deconstructing business databases to determine the likelihood of fraud and misconduct. - Devised SQL queries, functions and procedures to detect and investigate anomalies in the vendor, financial and employee data of a corporation. - Leveraged meaning from results of database testing to produce meaningful and explanatory reports for the client. - Delivered presentations using Tableau, Excel and PowerPoint to display and explain data in graphical form in order to assist the client in understanding the results of the investigation. - Produced novel Python and SQL scripts to efficiently cleanse and format large datasets. Show less



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• EIM Consulting Intern

  • Nov 2011 - Jan 2012

  - Utilised Excel v-lookups and pivot tables to reconcile data from several sources to ensure data integrity. - Analysed data numerically and graphically in order to identify reasons behind data inaccuracies. - Drafted documentation for usage of Hyperion Finance Management and Hyperion Finance Data Quality Management. - Created and designed detailed technical templates for future documentation creation. - Utilised Excel v-lookups and pivot tables to reconcile data from several sources to ensure data integrity. - Analysed data numerically and graphically in order to identify reasons behind data inaccuracies. - Drafted documentation for usage of Hyperion Finance Management and Hyperion Finance Data Quality Management. - Created and designed detailed technical templates for future documentation creation.