Erik Farmer Email & Phone Number

Purchase, New York, Us

As a technical lead I help the PepsiCo eCommerce Supply Chain Data Engineering team (what a mouthful!) gather data to make impactful business decisions that deliver value to our b2b and b2c customers.On any given day I might be: - Conducting Technical Design/Code review - Interacting with stakeholders to align technical solutions with business OKRs - Developing data pipelines (typically involving Airflow, Python, and SnowFlake) - Implementing monitoring, alerting, or data lineage tracking. - Ensuring the quality of our data lake & data platform - Aligning organization level initiatives for Senior Engineers across multiple teams.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

My work on the Reliability Payments team was to ensure that all our data driven operations were running in an efficient, scalable, and maintainable manner as they pertain to insurance authorizations and claims.During my time at Clover Health I was on a team that integrated a new authorization processing engine into our system. This 2 year long project saved the company millions of dollars a year in contract costs and gave better data insights.My responsibilities included: * Writing various ETL tasks composed in Airflow (additionally leveraging our in house orchestration framework). * Implementing vendor integrations/data synchronization tools to keep hundreds of thousands thousands of records up to date. * Building web services and reporting tools for our insurance/medical operations teams with both pro-active and reactive strategies. * Developing standards for various aspects of our platform architecture.

San Francisco, California, Us

Reduced costs and maintenance efforts by migrating queue system to AWS Batch/ECS solution.Improved exception reporting which reduced error alerts by an order of magnitude.Primary Stack: Python, Flask, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Git.

San Jose, California, Us

As one of the first engineers on the getTalent team I was given the opportunity to work throughout our entire webdev stack. While my primary focus was server-side API code a given day may have consisted working on AWS infrastructure, profiling/benchamrking APIs, or working on client-side javascript code. My successes at getTalent include:- Migrating components of the core application to a Docker based micro-service architecture.- Taking ownership of 3 core APIs.- Converting/refactoring numerous client pages (aka jQuery spaghetti) into AngularJS micro-SPAs.- Managing a small team of overseas developers.Primary Tech I worked with:Python, Flask, AWS, MySQL (AWS Aurora), noSQL (redis), JavaScript, Angular 1/4, Docker, Elastic Container Service, git

San Jose, California, Us

As a Python Web developer for the Google CorpNet team I build applications that help analyze and visualize network, infrastructure, and engineering data. As the sole development team for the Mountain View CorpNet group our role is crucial and demands stable, scalable, and performant work. My primary stack is Python, Django, and CloudSQL and am proficient in JS/CSS/UI design.• Helped integrate agile practices into the workflow, resulting in organized, documented, and accountable work.• Refactored existing prototypes for readability and stability. This allowed for 3 new product launches.• Quickly became project lead on 3 products used daily by Google staff.• Worked with internal Google teams to launch corporate network performance tool that analyzes nearly 1 million automated data entries daily.• Utilize “follow-the-sun” development to expedite new product launches.

Owned projects to support the software team that launched the world’s first crowd-funded satellite.• Developed an internal dashboard that displayed engineering & business analytics (Ruby on Rails, GitHub API, jQuery).• Extend functionality of existing application to support new requirements and features (Ruby on Rails, ActiveAdmin, ActionMailer, AJAX, Redis).• Assisted in the conversion of an online IDE’s web plug-in to a daemon (Python, Symfony, PHP).• Was primary developer on corporate site (WordPress, PHP).• Created mockups to facilitate UI/UX changes for main product site (Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap).

Germany, De

• Coordinated efforts with production, marketing, and customer relations teams to successfully deploy new sales promotions.• Investigated and aggregated bugs to effectively communicate high-priority issues with partnered developers.• Documented game data to send relevant information to various teams.• Acted as primary point of contact for community volunteer team to mediate issues and communicate them to appropriate department.• Engaged customers directly through in-game, forum, and social media events as Community Manager.• Supported players through Request Tracker system.

Seattle, Wa, Us

● Led a team in a retail environment through in store sales promotions, customer seminars, and new product launches; constantly exceeding sales goals.● Responsible for on-boarding new staff in product standards and food safety and mentored them in order to acquire the necessary certifications over a probationary period. ● Initiated an effort to increase customer satisfaction by over 10%, measured on a likert scale, over a four month period at an “at risk” store.● Managed a project to implement just in time (JIT) ordering in order to optimize the inventory database and par levels of orders.

● Generated excitement with interviewers from independent sites, blogs, and buyers for upcoming games.● Publicized new game plots and demonstrated new game play mechanics for a niche publishing studio.● Developed relationships with media outlets such as GameSpot.com and GameTrailers.com by communicating future offerings and product roadmaps for the upcoming quarter.