Kristopher Urie Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Remote, US

New York, NY, US

• Devops Engineer supporting a data science platform across multiple cloud providers.
• Developed devops tools and processes to manage a platform that provides orchestration (Airflow) and compute resources (on-demand Spark clusters on kubernetes) for 100+ data scientists across the organization.
• Configured monitoring and alerting (Prometheus and Pagerduty) to maintain system health, conducted incident response and root cause analysis to address system and user issues.
• Managed kubernetes clusters and related resources in multiple cloud environments (AWS, Azure).

Chicago, IL, US

• Lead engineer on the Data Pipeline Platform, providing infrastructure and tools to simplify data pipeline building, maintenance and operations for data engineering and data science teams.
• Managed dozens of scalable, customizable, isolated Apache Airflow installations in Kubernetes on EKS, to help teams manage their ETL and data science workflows. Also managed a small number of on-premise Airflow.
• Implemented additional custom Airflow operators to leverage internal on-premise data systems and accelerate cloud migration of data workflows.
• Managed about a dozen small EMR clusters for data engineering and data science teams.
• Guided the technical and product direction of a team of talented junior engineers.
• Promoted to Senior Engineer for leadership in the team’s cloud migration.

Chicago, IL, US

• Senior engineer working on mortgage loan data systems.
• Created a system for generating wire transfer instructions for warehouse banks, helping to get money to the closing table and ensure a smooth closing process for hundreds of mortgage borrowers on a daily basis.
• Mentored engineers that were new to the Clojure language being adopted across the company.
• Contributed to borrower document management systems and to an event-driven transactional email system that delivered critical information to loan officers and borrowers.

Chicago, IL, US

• Mid-level engineer working on systems for sales optimization and merchant payments.
• Developed a transactional ledger system that captures business events and automates merchant invoice calculation and payment.
• Developed a hybrid batch/real-time sales optimization system that uses multiple sources of data to evaluate millions of merchants daily and direct our global team of sales representatives to the most profitable sales.

Chicago, IL, US

• Entry-level engineer at the Biodiversity Synthesis Center, which served as a resource and meeting place for scientists, educators and students from institutions around the world.
• Developed desktop software and web apps for biomechanical and phylogenetics visualization.
• Built the departmental Drupal site.
• Mentored web design intern.

Chicago, IL, US

Developed bioinformatics and molecular physics simulation software in Java for research. See publications section for related papers.

Ms, Computer Science

Bse, Aerospace Engineering