Summary

Principal Data Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing and operating data platforms for both customer-facing products and large-scale analytics. Experienced in leading greenfield systems, driving architectural decisions, and working cross-functionally to deliver reliable, scalable data solutions in ambiguous environments.

Key Systems & Impact

Unify Data Platform (Living Security)

• Designed multi-tenant architecture for secure, scalable data processing
• Built serverless pipelines in AWS handling variable workloads and scaling constraints
• Selected and implemented core technologies (Postgres, Airflow, dbt)
• Reduced AWS costs by 5–10% through targeted optimizations
• Owned release process, including QA coordination and stakeholder communication

Distributed ETL Framework (WarnerMedia)

• Spark-based framework adopted across team, used in 90% of pipelines
• Improved reliability and reduced time to build new pipelines

Experience

Principal Data Engineer, Living Security: 2021 — Present

• Tech lead for data and backend systems on Unify, a customer-facing cybersecurity product and primary revenue driver
• Designed and built data platform from scratch, enabling multi-tenant analytics and processing
• Collaborated with product managers, data scientists, and domain experts to define system requirements and data models
• Built and operated AWS serverless pipelines, addressing scaling limitations and cost challenges
• Solved multi-tenant data isolation challenges for secure customer data handling
• Improved performance of Postgres-backed systems powering user-facing features
• Identified and executed cost optimization strategies resulting in ~5–10% AWS cost reductions
• Owned release lifecycle: QA coordination, production readiness decisions, and release communication
• Led and mentored a team of 3 engineers through design guidance and code reviews

Technologies Used

• Orchestration: Apache Airflow
• Query engines: AWS Athena, Postgres, DynamoDB
• Execution: AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Elastic Container Service
• Tools: dbt, SQLAlchemy, cdk

Senior Data Engineer, Warner Bros.: 2017 — 2021

• Developed large-scale data warehouse supporting ~100 pipelines and tens of GBs of daily processing
• Built flexible Spark ETL framework used by ~10 engineers across majority of pipelines
• Drove adoption of Airflow across multiple teams, establishing best practices and reusable components
• Owned data quality and monitoring systems including dashboards, alerting, and incident response
• Reduced time to resolution for pipeline failures and improved trust in analytical data
• Collaborated with analysts and data scientists to align data systems with business needs
• Mentored junior engineers through hands-on support and design discussions

Technologies Used

• Snowflake
• Redshift
• Python
• Apache Airflow
• AWS: S3, EMR, Lambda, Redshift

Data Engineer, Leaf Group: 2017

• Created Python API integrations for third party data sources.
• Designed and maintained aggregate tables to speed up reporting queries.
• Managed ETL jobs that powered reports sent to upper management.

Technologies Used

• Redshift
• Python

Data Engineer, Loot Crate: 2015 — 2017

• Created Python ETL workflows for ingesting data into Redshift data warehouse.
• Built unified Python library for ETL tasks.
• Worked with data architect to implement data lake on Google's cloud platform.
• Provided documentation and data modeling insights to data analysts.

Technologies Used

• BigQuery
• Redshift
• Python
• Apache Airflow
• Apache Nifi
• GCP: GCS, DataProc, BigQuery
• AWS: S3, Lambda

Developer, Creators: 2012 — 2015

• Managed and expanded large PHP-based website.
• Developed a comprehensive content management system for all of the company's web properties.
• Designed and implemented client-facing delivery methods.
• Designed and implemented a range of new business websites.
• Managed a mid-sized computer network, comprised of mostly iMacs and Windows PCs.
• Maintained company's web servers, including dedicated and virtual machines.

Technologies Used

• PHP
• MySQL
• Python
• AWS: S3, EC2, RDS

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Computer Skills

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Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Cum Laude

California State University Long Beach