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Remote

Building and orchestrating a modern data stack comprised of best-in-class Extract, Load and Transform (ELT) components, supplying our Data Lake House;Building, as well as providing expert guidance on how to build, data-driven products leveraging our data stack.

Designed and implemented the following solutions: Python libraries that facilitated API Authentication; interacting with MS Graph; Application Configuration and auto-generation of Data Classes from MS Graph JSON schema exemplars; Stateless Azure Function App products; The foundations for a complete CICD pipeline leveraging GitHub Actions Workflows.

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Designed and implemented the following software:
• On-prem Elastic Stack on-boarding automation microservice: provided Kibana credentials, Kibana Space, Elasticsearch index pattern; and custom Filebeat and Metricbeat configuration files;
• JPA implementation-agnostic Spring Boot Persistence starter library that provided a lightweight testing database, audit abilities, and configuration driven soft-delete functionality that leveraged the Reflection API.
• Spring Boot Metrics starter library to facilitate transmittal of application run-time metrics to Elastic Stack that provided customer Spring Actuator endpoint functionality that interfaced seamlessly with the.
• Java development environment setup automation script to streamline on-boarding;Collaborated on the design and implementation of an ACME protocol-like SSL certificate lifecycle Spring microservice and client library.

Designed and implemented Python-driven Big Data applications on an Agile team leveraging Hive, Impala, Apache Spark and Bash;Developed Python framework that de-normalized nested ACH file format data: refining that data by identifying, logging and removing inconsistent data during ingestion;Completed Python-driven data quality detection and remediation.

Buffalo, New York

Designed and implemented numerous Python-driven ETL applications that leveraged Oracle, Teradata, Hive, Impala and Pandas;Product owner for web-based production MDM frontend made production-ready in months;Taught employees how to leverage Python for data analysis, test automation, process automation, and reporting;

Buffalo, NY

• Established organization-wide, best-in-class data analysis capabilities by expanding the types of processes the organization was able to perform in-house, from simply data exploration, to data retrieval, preparation.
• Statistical analysis of myriad metadata associated with, and extracted from, large volumes of documents;
• Extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of data matching complex criteria from both binary and text-based data stores to enable further analysis via a browser-based interface;Comprehensively managed third-party.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Designed and implemented software to perform the following functions:
• Facilitate the export and conversion of voluminous document metadata via a deficiently documented jRuby API into a format compatible with our client’s data analysis system;
• Verify the completeness and correctness of structured data received from third-parties;

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Designed and implemented software to perform the following functions:
• Cataloging and cost analysis of the firm’s legal research publication subscriptions - features included: search, custom sorting and custom cost reports - all via a graphical interface;
• Identification, extraction and tabulation of relevant evidence from large volumes of documents for the purpose of calculating damages;Provided expert guidance on decisions where both legal and technology issues were.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

Master'S Of Environmental Law And Policy

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)