Joel Ponder Email & Phone Number

Purchase, Ny, Us

Cupertino, California, Us

Via Grid DynamicsSupported analysts by building production data pipelinesTuning large data aggregations for performanceCluster capacity planningOnboarding new team membersCoordinating upgrade effortsAct as DRI for key pipelines that generate data used weekly by executivesOnboard pipelines with SRE’sWrite documentationWrite continuous integration testing pipelinesImplement new features and maintain legacy pipelinesMigrate pipelines to new processing platformsWork with SRE's to create automation toolsTroubleshoot ML pipeline performance issues.End to end design and development of data ingestion pipelines with complex data governance requirements.Assist in department-wide pipeline efficiency analysisStack included Hydra, ACI RIO, ACI Data Pipelines, Nitro, Falcon, Hubble

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Us

Via Grid DynamicsWorked on advertising personalization project with team members in over 8 locations globallyResponsibilities included:Building and optimizing ETL pipelines using Azkaban, Hive, Tez, Scala/Spark, ORC, and BashBuilding data quality measures using Apache Griffin and GrafanaBuilding monitoring dashboard using BigQuery, MySQL, and Apache NiFiActing as a liaison between remote dev. team, client-side mgmt., QA, and prod. engineeringHelping architect solutionsInterviewing hiring candidatesTroubleshooting any production issuesPlanning releasesMember of team recognized with Grid Dynamics Rockstar Release Team Award

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

HERE TechnologiesContinued responsibilities from Data Analyst positionMigrated processes from Oracle to SparkMigrated batch processing platform from a local datacenter to AWSCreated and tuned Spark/MongoDB processCreated new version of product using Protobuf as delivery medium to data platformContinuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline implementationAssist in deployment of big data analytic products

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

HERE TechnologiesImplement Thoughtworks Go pipelinesRefactored Hive sanity checks to Scala SparkCreated automated report to using high dimensional dataMigrated large Maven project to SBTCreated Cloud Formation ScriptsCreated AWS EMR deployment scriptsJenkins adminRan Spark and Hadoop batch jobs with over 1.5 trillion data pointsEngineered a data pipeline using actor model concurrency.Organized team tech talksOrganized team training sessions

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

HERE TechnologiesHelped launch traffic incident services for Brazil

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Invented patented method for gathering traffic dataCreated real time content for location based servicesStreamlined information gathering processHelped champion adoption of new traffic incident management systemHelped curate real time traffic data source databaseHelped launch traffic incident services for Australia, New Zealand, GermanyLead traffic incident collection for Australia and New ZealandEditor of the monthTraffic Trailblazer of the monthKudos Award x 2

Drove sales through consistent engagementPromoted to Sr. Associate

Duisburg, De

Implemented Windows 2003 Server using VPN, NAS, DHCP, DNS, WINS, and Active Directory

Created and taught business writing courses to Microsoft employees

Video editingGraphic DesignEdited television program for international broadcast

Longwood, Fl, Us

Solved Customer's Service Related IssuesSears Above and Beyond Award

Co- founded media departmentRecruited and trained volunteersConsulted technical problemsCreated reverent atmosphere

Computer Science

Ba, Organizational/Interpersonal Communication

Non-Degree Diploma, Chinese

Diploma

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