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Santa Ana, CA, US

San Mateo, CA, US

Sequoia is modernizing compensation and benefits to help companies unlock a People Advantage. With Sequoia, employers can retain and attract the best talent in all markets, local and worldwide, and get the most out of their total people investment. ​

Alameda, California, US

• Astra is an aerospace startup offering orbital launch services for small satellites and other space products.
• Saved employer $700k annually, initiated archival of 200TB of InfluxDB volumes, decommissioned 50 instances.
• Reduced compute usage by 66%, migrated from AWS EMR to Apache Spark on Kubernetes.
• Accelerated batch workloads by 2-3x, optimized pipelines and tuned Apache Spark cluster.
• Implemented Lambda architecture on batch and streaming (Apache Kafka) data from manufacturing systems.
• Improved compaction of Parquet files in data lake from 900% of target to 110% of target.

Charleston, SC, US

• EVERFI is a SaaS education technology platform enabling financial education, workplace training, and more.
• Saved employer $300k annually by pioneering Vizifi, an embedded analytics solution to replace Tableau.
• Rallied adjacent teams and cultivated Vizifi into a robust, scalable, and maintainable system.
• Improved reliability of customer-facing metrics, consolidated Tableau calculations as DBT models under VCS.

Charleston, SC, US

• EVERFI is a SaaS education technology platform enabling financial education, workplace training, and more.
• Delivered 14x faster mechanism for Row Level Security, optimized performance for AWS Redshift and Snowflake.
• Added 260 hours of team capacity, architected CircleCI workflow and release automation for Tableau.
• Streamlined customer experience, built Tableau Extension APIs to render company React components and styles.

LOS Angeles, CA, US

• Gigwell is a SaaS booking management platform for the live music and entertainment industry.
• Increased refresh rate of company KPIs from once a month to once every two hours.
• Built out serverless ETL Pipeline (AWS Lambda) and Data Warehouse (AWS RDS) for company analytics.
• Sourced 30k+ leads, saved SDR 780 hours a year by building a Python web scraper to automate lead generation.
• Saved the CEO many hours every quarter by building a near real-time investor update dashboard.
• Reduced infrastructure costs by $4,500 annually by optimizing AWS Lambda performance.

San Francisco, California, US

• Tribe Dynamics is a SaaS analytics platform in the digital marketing space.
• Analyzed data quality, validated 35k+ profiles being used to calculate a proprietary metric.
• Mined data for internal research, client reporting, and external marketing publications.