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Seattle, Washington, United States

Architect-ed, designed and built state-of-the-art cloud-based Data Lakehouse built on Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure KeyVault. Data Lakehouse built on medallion architecture leveraging custom metadata-driven ELT pipelines in Azure Data Factory to query/extract/store all in-coming "raw" data in Azure Data Lake Storage and created custom Azure Databricks pipelines for loading in data into "bronze/silver" Delta Live tables with options for row-level history tracking. Integrated roughly 60 different internal and third-party data sources containing roughly 2000 separate near-real-time datasets into the Data Lakehouse. Worked on data migration from legacy Data Warehouse into the new Data Lakehouse.Implemented data collection and dashboards to track cloud resource utilization and spend. Based on those trends, implemented design optimizations through smart-triggered pipeline integrations across Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks piplines to drastically reduce costs by more than 50%. Worked directly with Databricks engineers to address any performance, security and scaling issues.Worked with data supplier and data consumer teams across the company to deprecate any Data Warehouse process or reporting dependencies.Worked directly with auditors and security teams to establish SOX access, change-management and operational controls to maintain compliance within the Data Lakehouse.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Established Trupanion's DataOps team which included initially included just data warehouse and reporting. Initial charter was to make data warehouse data more accessible and discoverable by teams throughout Trupanion. Expanded team to include data analytics and production database administration. Working cross-team and cross-company initiatives to migrate and integrate with new core software/database systems.

Seattle, Washington

Worked on various database initiatives related to core business-critical databases including security, performance tuning and maintenance. Developed tools to collect and stored database trace data and metrics in ElasticSearch using Logstash. Built dashboards on top of this data to monitoring and highlight performance and security issues. Worked on CI/CD tools for database build and deploy using TFS/Octopus and then migrating these processes to Azure DevOps.

Bellevue, Washington

Worked database initiatives for Egencia's Hotel stack, including data analytics and data sharing with Egencia's parent company, Expedia Inc..

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Managed a team of full-time and contract database developers in both NA and India. Established and fostered positive relations with various teams throughout Egencia and its parent company, Managed and help prioritize database design, development, security, maintenance and tuning initiatives. Mentored and worked with team members on career goals and advancement.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Worked on a broad range of Egencia core-business databases. Designed, developed and maintained a real-time metadata-driven fault-tolerant bi-directional data synchronization tool for managing data flowing between EU and NA database systems. Involved server and database migrations, security, database framework development and new database design.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Database design and development across multiple business-critical database. Other responsibilities include database modifications, schema refactoring, data retention processes, security, maintenance and tuning. Worked with various teams across Egencia and Expedia. Worked with Expedia teams on automated database build and deploy tools.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Worked on core business-critical database development and reporting initiatives.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Worked on various business-critical database projects, including redesign of cataloging and indexing process for products scraped from partner websites. Successfully reduced daily processing times from nearly 24 hours down to roughly 1 hour. Migrated and integrated this process with Endeca real-time search technology.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Worked on data analytics of Microsoft's hardware/driver certification library. Built analytic cubes and reports for quality control and discovery.

Seattle, Washington, United States

JSP web developer for Amazon's product catalog.

Primary DBA for Amazon multi-terabyte data warehouse. Duties included: 24x7 support, research/design of new hardware implementations, performance tuning, backup/restore process and maintenance procedures. Worked with Amazon's data warehousing team on star schema design/development. Partnered with Redbrick Software on database engine enhancements and beta-testing new versions.