I am an experienced data engineer and spent years researching the math behind LLMs. I am particularly interested in tech with applications to IoT and agriculture.My experience working with large datasets includes projects in fields as broad as astronomy, GIS, medical devices, IoT on mining equipment, Special Economic Zones, social media data, shopping recommendations, policy visualizations, fintech, and more.This experience includes architecting data infrastructure, implementing it, and then working with consumers and stakeholders to analyze the data.I have used Amazon Web Services (AWS) since the earliest services were released and prefer to work with their tools. My background in Python dates to version 2.5.1 (in 2007).I lived mostly in Ankara from 2021 until the beginning of 2024. Now, I am back to the Seattle area.
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Data ConsultantFreelance Aug 2021 - PresentI work with my clients on their data needs.This has included data pipelines, private RAG systems, programmatic deployment and monitoring on AWS, visualizations and more.Experienced working with strict security requirements, including architecting and deploying HIPAA and financially compliant backends and data pipelines.
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Chief Technology OfficerAdrianople Group Jul 2022 - Nov 2024Ankara And SeattleContracted as CTO to set them up for data success.- Rearchitected the data management procedures- Modernized the ETL procedures with Postgresql, Neo4j, dbt, and Fivetran- Greatly optimized the performance of the visualizations- Led a small team of developers to manage data quality -
Data EngineerOn Deck Sep 2021 - May 2022Ankara, TurkeyCreated a knowledge graph, linking information about different entities and their relations in On Deck's network. This was implemented in Neo4j and deployed on GCP. We deployed a few methods from Neo4j's Data Science Library. The core data team was let go during the round of layoffs of May 2022. -
Data EngineerBella Loves Me Oct 2019 - Jun 2021Seattle, Washington, United StatesDesigned and implemented the architecture to power the personalized, data-driven member experience. This included a Data Lake with an ETL process in AWS. There was a lot of ad-hoc analysis with Jupyter Notebooks. Bella was a fintech experiment from LivePerson that is no longer in operation.
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Machine Learning EngineerLiveperson Jul 2018 - Oct 2019Greater Seattle Area- Worked on a large Hadoop cluster, creating jobs in Spark and Impala for the data science team- Worked on the infrastructure for repeatable data science experiments- Worked on the architecture for storing annotations- Created internal tooling and reports
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Lead Data ScientistElevΔt.Iot Oct 2017 - Jul 2018Greater Seattle AreaWorked on the original data platform. Implemented scalable derivative and anomaly detection on high frequency sensor data.Early adopter of ScyllaDB - worked on the migration of a large database into Scylla -
Data Scientist / Senior Software Development EngineerMaxsam Partners Jan 2016 - Aug 2017I started working with Maxsam to stabilize and fix a dire deployment issue of one of their large clients. In short time and under significant pressure, I worked with a small team to architect and deploy a solution that rapidly restored functionality, and then worked over the next few months to architect something that would last years (in conjunction with migrating their core systems to AWS). I also architected and deployed an inventory system for a client, creating both the front and backends, and worked on organizing the data and digital assets for a travel company.Created a HIPAA-compliant backend that supported medical research.
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Software ConsultantConsulting Feb 2014 - Jan 2016Greater Seattle AreaI specialized in data engineering, focusing on geodata (especially using PostGIS/CartoDB). I worked with some startups to architect and deploy their AWS deployments. I also worked on a signal processing project, implementing efficient methods for event detection with high frequency data. I created two recommendation systems for retail clients.I created a HIPAA compliant frontend and backend for a defunct medical startup. The frontend was implemented with Ionic and the backend was on AWS.
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Piano TeacherPrivate Piano Teacher 2005 - 2012Greater Seattle AreaI taught piano to over 25 children, teenagers, and adults. Teaching piano has given mefirsthand insight into the learning process and made me adept at communicating complexideas to a wide range of people of all ages.
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Concert PromotingSupporting Local Music 2006 - 2010I worked alongside a local music promoter, which entailed working at merchandise tables, hanging up posters, handing out flyers, and organizing mailing lists.
Andy Barr Education Details
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University Of California MercedApplied Mathematics
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Andy Barr attended University Of Washington, University Of California Merced, Bellevue Community College.
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