Player-coach Data Engineering Leader with 4+ years of experience building and managing high-performing teams while staying hands-on in the codebase, architecture, and technical roadmap, and 10+ years designing scalable data platforms across fintech, marketing, and the public sector. At dv01, grew a product line from the ground up into a multi-million dollar ARR business, delivering data infrastructure for some of the world's largest banks and hedge funds. Passionate about translating complex data problems into reliable, cost-efficient systems and developing engineers into strong technical contributors.
Skills & Education
- Education
- University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, B.S. Electrical Engineering, May 2008
- Programming
- Python, SQL, Bash
- Infrastructure
- Airflow, Docker, GCP, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Harness)
- Databases
- Snowflake, BigQuery, PySpark, Databricks, DBT, Postgres, MSSQL
- Data Viz
- Tableau, Looker, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib
Experience
dv01
dv01 is a financial technology data management, reporting & analytics platform offering loan-level transparency and insight into lending markets.
- Lead inter-departmental team for Data Direct product line
- Grew from team of one to team of four with millions in ARR. Directly manage four people
- Create product roadmap, delegate tasks, run performance reviews, and develop ICs
- Manage costs of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure (decreased cost by 24%)
- Plan, lead data product feature rollouts and maintain current solutions: Snowflake, Databricks (Delta Lake, Iceberg), BigQuery, SFTP. Coordinate feature parity with web app and work with sales team on product pricing and support
- Led team adoption of AI-assisted development (Claude Code), establishing best practices that improved delivery speed and code quality
dv01
- Work with data pipeline and business teams to plan, scope, and develop new, scalable features
- Lead product migration from MSSQL Server to BigQuery
- Decrease pipeline write time by 40% by leveraging BigQuery SQL, Python, Docker, DBT
- Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and new hires
dv01
- Evolve the Data offering from one-off custom build to a full product that meets any client's needs
- Build and maintain data pipelines including Airflow DAGs, scheduled jobs, & automated testing
- Lead client meetings and support. Create documentation and marketing from scratch
Major League Soccer
- Create data pipeline which in turn powered Tableau insights dashboards for C-Suite as well as dozens of ad hoc user and content analysis dashboards
Orchard Platform
Orchard was a provider of tech and analytics to the marketplace lending industry.
- Create both reports for marketplace lending clients & internal tools (Looker, PySpark, Postgres) to share insights for client services, sales, marketing and data science teams
Organizing for Action
OFA is a nonprofit 501c4 that advocates for the agenda of President Barack Obama. OFA maintains his digital resources: barackobama.com, @barackobama, email list, etc.
- Harness data insights for social media accounts that reach over 65 million people and an email list of millions of supporters
- Monitor & report on website activity and campaign performance
Presenter - Analytics Institute Yearly Conference 2015
University of Illinois at Chicago - School of Public Health
- Data analysis & visualization for School of Public Health. Results published in PLOS ONE