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Aviv G. - Remote data engineer

Aviv G.

Based in: 🇺🇸 United States
Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-4)

Summary

I just wrapped up 5+ years at Hinge, where I grew the data team from just 1 (me) to 50+ people. Along the way, I did just about every data job you can do, building our data warehouse, Looker models, Airflow instance, ETL templates, privacy systems, and lots of other cool bespoke data things that I can't tell you about. We were an AWS shop, and so my expertise includes Python, Redshift, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Kafka, but mostly over the years I developed lots of opinions on the fundamentals good project design principles and code cleanliness.

Interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and mentoring were some of my favorite things to do while I was at Hinge — I loved meeting lots of new people and giving them the resources to guide themselves through hard problems. And now I want to do that with you :)

Work Experience

Senior Data Engineer, Community
Hinge | Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Python
SQL
Bash
Amazon Redshift
Apache Airflow
- Lead design for data products critical to privacy and compliance, bad actor prevention, and customer experience agent effectiveness/efficiency. - Hire, onboard, and mentor new members of the team - Still the only contributing member of the #birds slack channel
Data Engineer
Hinge | Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Python
PostgreSQL
Amazon Redshift
Apache Airflow
Headed Data Engineering efforts to maintain and improve the health of Hinge's community, from bad actor prevention to privacy/compliance to general user contentedness and satisfaction. - Built novel pipelines to surface maximum data to our customer experience agents. - Refactored our data privacy pipelines to support a distributed, service-based architecture - Ensured analytics availability for all kinds of new features, like our new ban appeals flow - Trained and mentored new data engineers and helped set cross-discipline code standards -Migrated our ETLs from cron to Airflow because it was the 21st century -Built in-house alerting tool called Alert Dog that was able to alert arbitrary groups of people based off anything in our data warehouse, but also attached a nice picture of a dog, so people would be soothed at the same time as they found out that they were supposed to be fixing something. -Developed and executed iceboxing policy for our data using AWS Redshift Spectrum -Developed and executed plan to make Hinge GDPR compliant -Wrote our whole finance pipeline