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San Francisco, California

• Built and managed global org of 50+ engineers at 0% attrition; projected, owned, and stayed within $27MM budget
• Integrated 4,000+ SORs (35B+ messages/day) via Confluent Kafka, comprising 40+ highly reliable, scalable patterns
• Executed multi-year contracts with key vendors including Confluent and Snowflake, negotiated unique concessions
• Directly delivered $19.5MM+ in cost savings (OCOGs & OpEx); enabled >$50MM in new & incremental revenue
• Shrunk hot storage by 75%; increased manufacturing efficiency by 37% using stream processing & real-time analytics
• Built reusable patterns to for integration and stream processing (Kafka & Flink), achieved adoption across company

San Francisco, California

• Built and managed global org of 30+ engineers at 0% attrition; fostered core skills across teams increasing capacity
• Developed unified ingest architecture with schema evolution predicated on Kafka; delivered production ML pipelines
• Oversaw design, deployment of, and migration to lakehouse architecture predicated on Confluent Kafka & Snowflake
• Built config-driven deployment of observability & incident mgmt; enabled scalable, follow-the-sun operational model
• Defined availability platform-wide, enabled its measurement and observability, allowing for establishment of SLAs
• Delivered push-based ELT via self-service publication to Kafka; deployed DSR APIs & DR for GDPR compliance

San Francisco, California

• Designed, contributed to, and oversaw successful deployment of Kinesis Data Firehose for data lake ingress
• Ingress architecture enabled: user delete, exception handling, disaster recovery, reduced latency, DDL deduplication
• Designed and oversaw implementation of automated data quality tests against SOR; oversaw reporting migration
• Worked with cross-functional team to develop data use case source system selection criteria (warehouse vs. lake)
• Eliminated key-person risk in data infrastructure with exhaustive documentation and graphical information index
• Designed, developed, and implemented novel “closed-loop” behavioral analytics framework (single source of truth)

San Francisco, California

• Partnered with Engineering Director to design and build data lake and data warehouse using serverless ETL
• Produced analyses and decks for pharma deals & diligence process; contributed to multiple research publications
• Hired three additional BI analysts and absorbed oversight of data science; brought data team under Engineering org

San Francisco, California

• Developed ETLs, SQL schemas, and BI assets to support all data customers; administered RDS & Tableau Server
• Implemented runbook automation to coordinate ETL and data delivery processes across production environments
• Developed and executed on 12-month data roadmap; hired additional BI analyst; enabled clinical research initiatives

San Francisco, California

• Member of strategic task force with C-Suite behind successful conversion to subscription model from free product
• Developed statistical churn definition in Python; deployed Python service to power Tableau dashboards on Netezza
• Implemented time series KPI forecast model in Python to advise operational budgeting and goal setting via Tableau
• Developed standardization and fuzzy match system in Python to incorporate third-party data into data warehouse

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Proposed and implemented Tableau; expanded user base from one to 25+ users across three teams and the C-suite
• Published end-user accessible data sources combining raw data from disparate systems; automated existing reporting
• Performed strategic financial analysis with Tableau, SQL, and Python; built functional revenue forecast model
• Delivered key insights using polished, interactive dashboards; briefed C-suite for BoD meetings and earnings calls
• Managed, checked, common-sized, and compared financial models from the IB syndicate that underwrote the IPO

Raleigh, North Carolina

• Deployed SQL Server & Tableau Server to leverage CRM data for fundraising, deal sourcing, portfolio monitoring
• Developed custom Salesforce objects for portfolio company compliance tracking, catching numerous violations
• Conducted due diligence on private companies; projected financials and modeled transactions including LBOs
• Administered Tableau Server, SQL Server, Salesforce; hired consultants; hired, trained, and managed eight interns
• Established relationship with NC State’s Data Analytics Dept.; delivered guest lectures to hundreds of grad students