As the staff data engineer, I was responsible for mentoring other data engineers, analysts, and data scientists using skills ranging from standard Python software engineering, to Pandas specific optimizations, through to the design and underlying IO organization to make our data lake more performant and less costly to operate. Given my general software engineering experience, it often fell to me to work across teams building integrations in foreign languages to facilitate data ingestion, lead/implement backfilling data in upstream systems to benefit gaps in the data lake, as well as forensic level research at times to synthesize hard-to-reach, business data using proxy sources.Some of my more notable work: forensic analysis to produce a reliable answer to user consent, designed/implemented Salesforce ingestion pipeline via AppFlow and APEX triggers unlocking business insights and reducing costly CDC licensing, created tooling to deterministically answer if data in the lake was used and by what systems, created our data quality practices capable of proving logical equivalence to prevent regression, created the initial Datapult integration to facilitate delivery of electronic lab results to various government agencies and saving 10s of thousands per month in 3rd party processing fees, and carried out cost cutting measures across the data lake reducing operational spend significantly while providing tooling for fine-level granular cost attribution.Buzzwords: APEX, SOQL, DataWeave, Python, Pandas, Presto/Trino, BigQuery, Athena, AWS Lambda, S3 Best Practices, Upsolver, SQL query tuning, performance optimization, data engineering, ETL/ELT, data QA, Grafana, Tableau, HL7, MARS RADx, Typescript

As an experienced software generalist, I introduced modern CI/CD practices for .NET on new projects, the practices of which were used to help Salesforce engineers to help design their SDLC. Provided direct benefit to the company talent attraction by representing the organization at hackathons, hiring events, and during many interviews across tiers and roles. Additionally, I wrote proposals to attract TOP interns/associates to join my projects and worked with the program at large to help jumpstart careers.After earning excellence equity, peers would seek me out across the firm to aid in troubleshooting hard problems with one such instance requiring synthesizing “normal” web traffic to allow for me to solve an operational failure point and lead a stress testing initiative to prove the sales solution was more than ready to go live without a total redesign. Vetted a data-science-as-a-service platform vendor for project Oculus and educated IT security on modern cloud design as well as the internal workings of the vendor solution to garner approval to proceed. To facilitate the Oculus project, worked with security, cloud professionals, data engineers, and data scientists to align on efforts and fill in communication gaps across the disparate skills/language.Buzzwords: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, JSON:API, Python, Pandas, Qlik Scripting Language, T-SQL, SQL Server 2019, Sybase ASE/IQ, APEX (code reviews and mentoring only), Salesforce (APIs and SOQL), mentoring, interviewing, recruiting, leadership, query tuning, stress testing, systems architect, data architect, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, API design, REST, hypermedia, data warehousing, data engineering

As a Principal Engineer, my focus is on helping grow the engineering practice of the organization and promoting knowledge across teams. To do this effectively, I strive to be an exemplar engineer to provide a good role model for others to follow. I spread my knowledge through code reviews, Slack conversations, pairing, and general mentoring for juniors through veteran seniors. I am fallible for certain and try to maintain the upmost transparency so others may use my flaws as well as my hard earned lessons as a source of training material. Suffice it to say that if I am not helping other engineers be more productive, I am failing in my role.Former role description unedited for historical context:As the former Engineering Lead (People & Process), my current priority is to design, maintain, and lead the engineering recruiting process to ensure quality hires and well represent the Built engineering brand. This requires process design, creating job requirements, leading interviews, attracting top engineers, educating and working with external recruiters, and representing Built in the development communities.My additional responsibility is on improving our engineering practices and growing our engineers professionally. This requires a combination of one-on-ones, and training and development as well as evolving our development processes over time. This is a highly collaborative process and the goal is to create systems of practice that lead to effective, quality results while reducing the cognitive burden on our engineers.Buzzwords: PHP, Javascript, MySQL, leadership, mentoring, recruitment, training and development

Brought on as a senior engineer to develop new services and evolve existing services to better support the segment growth of the business. In my stay, I would routinely tackle difficult problems as well as develop novel methods for communicating better with QA and product management when working on complex solutions.My predominant contributions were to business critical services such as tax and pricing service as well as general improvements to the internal libraries used by all services. In support of these services, it was not uncommon for me to work as the sole remote contributing member of both domestic and international teams. In addition to these services, I worked on the event service- that powered most of the business - leading a large series of improvements to support a new messaging format and a better approach to handling validation failures to ultimately improve the UX of the developer using the service.Buzz words: Python, Javascript, MySQL, SOA, microservice, API design, hypermedia, REST

As an architect, I researched new cloud-based systems architecture, a wide array of code methodologies, and best practices for both technology and workflow ultimately to help set a technical direction for the team. I worked with a terrific group of exceptional engineers that continually kept me humbled.My duties also charged me with fostering teams and keeping the strong, open culture alive. I designed teams by selecting members to task with feature development based on skills and interests of the employee and the team. To help the teams be more effective, I sought to set clear sprint goals and vision, so that teams could align better toward common goals.To cultivate culture, I arranged team building exercises, celebrated success, coached team leads about serving other teams, and grew team members professionally by creating learning opportunities. Also, I met with each developer on a frequent basis to ask how they wanted to grow in the next 6 months, talked through any confidential issues, and provided additional transparency around business decisions.Embracing growth, I became a certified ScrumMaster and certified scrum developer, so that I could better lead and coach my colleagues as we balanced our technical needs against our product owner's needs. I was actively a ScrumMaster for one of the three teams under my charge.When problems between teams arose, I confronted the issues head on; providing transparency to quell assumptions, and when needed pulled team members from separate teams together to tackle problems collaboratively.There were three teams under my charge consisting of a core services team, a full product focused team, and an interactive development team. There were 17 developers in total with most being senior in their roles.Buzz words: C#, .NET 4.6, WebAPI 2, MVC 5, Microsoft Azure, PaaS, Git, OOD, OOP, SOLID, DocumentDb, NoSql, Scrum, Team Building, Cross-functional and Highly Effective Teams

As VP of platform engineering, I contribute to business steering and decisions while leading and working with a small team of engineers. Platform engineering designs, develops, implements, and hosts solutions requiring expertise in networks, systems, databases, and server-side API design using chiefly Microsoft technologies. We operate and innovate our company's main server technology ecosystem called M3, which runs in a high volume, high availability capacity both in environments that we host, as well as client on-premise environments. We also model and integrate with our clients' existing content services. The solutions we build and support run 24/7 feeding content to the world.In my role, I architect systems for performance and availability in a minimalistic way. I troubleshoot complex problems requiring creative thinking, code-stepping, database profiling, traffic sniffing, performance metrics analysis, as well as root cause analysis. To improve performance in these systems, I use stress testing to expose strategic opportunities to improve responsiveness in APIs, databases, and client-server communications. I also dream up new ways to operate, do business, and improve quality of service for our users; both developers and mobile device users.I was the main point of contact for Mercury for HackNashville 3 - 5. I encourage education and community involvement where possible: UX Roadshow, data science lunch, and promotion of local user groups. Enjoying culture, I put together our first company whiskey tasting.Buzzwords: C#, .NET 4.5, WebAPI 2, MVC 5, IIS 8, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, XML, JSon, T-SQL, SQL Server 2008 - 2014, SQL Azure, Microsoft Azure, Platform as a service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Git, High availability, High volume, Stress testing, Load testing, Load balancingMore buzzwords in which I dabble or occasionally work: Python, Hadoop, data warehousing, ETL, SSIS, SSAS, MDX, LoadUI, SoapUI

Designed and developed custom, data-driven desktop and web applications. Managed a small team of software developers. Fulfilled the role of IT director, systems admin, network admin, DBA, and software developer for the largest client. Integrated data services with fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies. Board member. Ran the most profitable department.Buzz words: C#, VB.NET, .NET 2.0, ASP.NET, T-SQL, SSRS, SQL Server 2000/2005, IIS 6, Legacy ASP, Access, Redhat, Active Directory, Exchange, ISA, Cisco PIX Firewall, Barracuda Firewall, MCSE, MCDBA.