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Independence, Mo, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Supported efforts to create a new machine learning, data science and enterprise reporting platform for realtime HIPAA compliant data-driven health system decision making. Our team implemented Apache Spark ELT pipelines on the Databricks platform utilizing Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Unity Catalog and Delta Live Tables. Built data processing applications to ingest real-time Structured Streaming and historical Materialized Views to drive cross-client insights. Worked closely with data producing product teams and data consuming Business Analysts, Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers.I joined a team with the mission to unify data across the organization. The company's transactional user interaction data lived primarily in Azure SQL databases segmented by client. We developed solutions to ingest and unify historical and streaming data to provide a comprehensive, centralized and low update-latency analysis platform. I learned to think deeply about the architectural capabilities of data modeling on the Databricks platform. I gained a strong understanding of the Medallion Architecture and the Star Schemas that defined our Silver and Gold layers. Our team built production-grade data pipelines with requirements like fault tolerance, quarantining malformed messages, disaster recovery and integrated batch and streaming orchestration. I expanded my knowledge of the design, implementation and tradeoffs of Data Lakehouses.

Led technical discovery efforts for the implementation of a sharing economy solution for the moving and storage industries targeting iOS, Android and Web. Worked closely with a third-party team in choosing the platform, libraries and database solutions to power the backend and client applications. Improved knowledge of Flutter, React Native, Firebase, requirements analysis from visual and written system behavior and collaborating effectively with a remote team.I joined this startup as the first employee. I was hired as a Flutter Developer and it was exciting to work for a company I felt had a lot of potential. Their flagship product, MYLO, was designed for a three-sided marketplace that included customers, movers and storage facility providers. All of the onboarding for each of the three categories was automated with the addition of dispatching and the logistics for the storage and retrieval of a customer property. My primary role involved requirements analysis and technology infrastructure planning. MYLO was extensively documented in visual and written form but in non- technical language. I evaluated requirements and provided feedback about the frontend and backend tools and technologies we would need to gain traction and fulfill the organic growth the company envisions. I gained experience in remotely collaborating with a third-party team of developers and product owners to find the best way forward given the input of all stakeholders.

Assisted existing team with bug fixes and new features to support the 1.0 release of an app targeting the boutique fitness market. Quickly learned and contributed to new codebase. Improved knowledge of Dart, Flutter and Android development.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Assisted Data Scientists with access, cleaning and transformation of data in real-time decision making models. Developed ETL pipelines on AWS infrastructure for numerous datasets ingested from diverse sources. Utilized PySpark, Glue, Lambda, SQS, Kafka, and Step Functions to develop solutions that loaded datasets into Aurora and Redshift. Improved knowledge of Python, SQL, the AWS cloud ecosystem and building scalable production-grade ETL pipelines.Spring Venture Group is a fast growing consumer-facing Medicare supplemental insurance broker. The company was unique because it advertised almost exclusively through digital channels. I was hired as a Data Engineer and my primary role was assisting Data Scientists with uniform interfaces for accessing datasets to be used in decision making models. This involved aggregating and consolidating data from diverse sources including internal and external databases, first and third-party REST APIs and the company's data lake. I architected ETL pipelines on AWS infrastructure and developed Python APIs for simple and uniform access to many types of datasets including actuarial, accounting, advertising budgets, associate performance, speech-to-text and statistics related to deployed models.While at the company I like to think that I became our team’s subject matter expert on Python. I was tasked with solving many challenges related to system design and deployment. When I started with the company many of the ETL related tasks were accomplished by utilizing SQLAlchemy and Pandas. As the size of the datasets we were working with increased we began deploying newer ETL pipelines on AWS Glue using PySpark. I helped develop infrastructure for the company using AWS tools including Boto3, EC2, S3, Aurora, Redshift, Lambda, API Gateway, Kafka, SQS, Step Functions, Athena, CloudWatch, Batch and Service Catalog.

New York, New York, Us

Developed interactive client-side JavaScript applications and contributed to the creation of several web-based SPA advertising experiences. Improved knowledge of UI design best practices and the capabilities of the web-based frontend software development ecosystem.I joined this digital advertising agency looking to gain experience working with a larger organization on larger teams. At the time I had some background in web development but knew I had a lot to learn. I was a member of many different teams, working on diverse projects, primarily building applications utilizing JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React and Node.js. I worked on portals for Sprint, Ford Mobility and Korean Air. This taught me a lot about transforming requirements in to functional software. I worked on teams ranging from 4 to 20 members and learned to coordinate with others to deliver value. I gained an understanding of the possibilities and constraints related to web development and browser-based client-side application platforms.

Joined team developing the 2.0 version of self-service kiosk and POS system targeting Ubuntu Linux and Android. Our team implemented solutions for the user-interface, database schema design and migrations, hardware device integration and networking. Improved knowledge of Python, SQL, Git and systems design.I joined the company as a recent college graduate looking to prove myself on a team of Software Engineers. I had a strong understanding of the Python programming language in which the system was being developed but had to become familiar with many of the libraries we utilized. We used the Kivy UI framework, which was cutting-edge at the time because it allowed you to target iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux with a single cross-platform Python codebase. I worked on many parts of the implementation including the user interface, database integration, incorporating payment gateways and networking. I contributed to the design of hardware device interfaces which included mechanical bill acceptors and credit card readers. I found myself coming to work everyday excited to build out new features and collaborate with a team to design the infrastructure and end-user experience.

Helped architect PHP, Python and JavaScript applications to support internal operations of call-center and automate data extraction and analysis. Developed installation script and PXE network boot environment to serve customized Linux distribution. Improved knowledge of networked environments, data analysis and transformation and JavaScript, Python and PHP application development.

Served customers in a retail sales setting. Responsible for general store operations and maintenance. Occasional bookkeeping and bank deposit responsibilities. Gained insight into effective salesmanship, customer relations and the consumer electronics market.As a college student who was interested in Computer Science I found employment at RadioShack which I felt was relevant to my future career goals. I worked as a Sales Associate helping customers with their questions about consumer electronics. I wanted to be a subject matter expert and found it fulfilling to provide quality guidance to our clients. I had to be prepared to provide answers to a diverse set of questions and problem solve many issues. Throughout my employment I was constantly learning from my peers to improve my ability to advise consumers with informed feedback. This experience has driven my stakeholder-centric approach to team collaboration.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Computer Science