Status:
Active
Location:
New Orleans
Basic salary:
$170k
Exp. years:
5
Specialisms:
Python, Django, Terraform, React, AWS, Spark, Lambdas
Overview:
A business focused software engineer with over 6 years’ experience in backend development. Has experienced culture in early start-ups and also accomplished scaleups such as Uber.
Key Highlights
- Led and implemented the rebuild of the client data ingestion pipeline to be event-driven using AWS Lambda, removing the need for human involvement.
- Was the primary interface between executive management and data engineering. Leveraged Spark and Hadoop using SQL and HiveQL to successfully transform distributed datasets generated from over 2 billion API requests per day to drive product innovation.
- Took ownership and built a custom API client in Python to parse XML fraud data, increasing correctly identified fraud by over 40%.
- Oversaw a 6-person remote team to develop two software products from ideation to a working prototype in less than 5 months.