Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2023 — 2024
McLean, Virginia, United States
Data Pipeline Architect: Designed and implemented robust data pipelines from Acxiom and Experian, ensuring reliability and accuracy with rigorous quality checks and data stewardship practices.
Cross-Functional Team Support: Proactively assisted teams facing deadline challenges through reorganization of priorities, pair programming, and addressing blockers, contributing to timely project completion.
Data Enrichment Pipeline Collaboration: Collaborated with business analytics teams to develop data enrichment pipelines, accelerating model-building for data scientists and optimizing SQL queries for efficiency.
Team Mentorship: Provided personalized mentorship to foster a positive atmosphere and continuous development, aligning team duties with individual profiles for productivity.
Innovation in Technology Adoption: Pioneered the adoption of innovative technologies to enhance efficiency and performance, staying ahead of industry trends.
Optimized Cost Efficiency: Implemented a nuanced cost optimization strategy, including ARM-based instance adoption and SLA-based spot instance utilization, resulting in substantial savings in cloud infrastructure costs.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
McLean, Virginia, United States
EMR SME: Demonstrated expertise in cutting EMR costs by over 50% through cost-saving measures and performance enhancements. Facilitated knowledge transfer via personalized sessions and recorded videos, driving efficiency across teams.
Cyber Incident Response Lead: Directed cyber incident response efforts, generating timely and accurate reports to effectively address security incidents. Collaborated with senior directors and guided a team of skilled data engineers.
Data Issue Resolution and Vendor Liaison: Proactively managed data discrepancies by liaising with vendors and conducting troubleshooting sessions. Ensured marketing data accuracy and timely issue resolution as the primary contact for vendors.
Automated Processes and Tools: Developed software tools to automate internal processes, significantly reducing feedback loop times and enhancing software quality and efficiency through coding best practices enforcement.
Data Pipeline Optimization: Orchestrated continuous improvement of data pipelines using AWS, PySpark, Airflow, and other technologies to align with evolving requirements and enhance performance.
Strategic Technology Roadmaps: Contributed to aligning technology initiatives with long-term business goals by developing strategic technology roadmaps.
Data Stewardship: Established protocols for responsible data handling, ensuring data quality, integrity, and confidentiality, and fostering a culture of data governance and accountability.
Optimization for Parallel Processing: Enhanced data pipeline efficiency and performance through code and library optimization for parallel processing, resulting in significant runtime reductions and operational cost savings. Improved hardware utilization and autoscaling capabilities through rightsizing code implementation.
2016 — 2022
2016 — 2022
Knoxville Metropolitan Area
2014 — 2016
2014 — 2016
Knoxville Metropolitan Area
Education
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
BS, Computer Science
2010 — 2015