Personal details

Linda L. - Remote data engineer

Linda L.

Based in: đŸ‡ș🇾 United States
Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

A highly skilled and innovative professional, with 7+ years of experience leading data engineering and software engineering. A goal-oriented technical mentor, with specialized experience in databases, data modeling, and CI/CD. Exceptional communication and software development skills.

Work Experience

Software Engineer, Team Lead
PROJECT ARCHER, STORE NO. 8, WALMART | Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
C#
Azure
Jenkins
Docker
React
Postman
Terraform
Entity Framework Core
.NET
RESTful API

Led team of three engineers to support Augmented Reality (AR) application data needs and internal tools, including CI/CD pipelines, Azure resources and monitoring, C#/.NET ETL, and backend for React web application.

  • Refactored .NET console application used to extract and transform Walmart data to use more accurate and faster data source, upgrading from Presto to REST API, achieving 12X improvement in processing time.
  • Created C#/.NET multithreaded image validation tool to efficiently check image URLs for invalid and unexpected web responses to improve product image data quality.
  • Resolved error in Terraform resource provisioning of Azure cloud resources due to Azure deprecation of resource type and collaborated with stakeholders to minimize impact. Used Postman monitors to automate daily team oncall tasks to test API endpoints across three environments.
Senior Data Engineer
BROOKS RUNNING | Mar 2020 - May 2021
Python
Docker
Tableau
AWS Lambda
Snowflake
Bitbucket Pipelines
AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Served as technical lead on the data team as the company transitioned to and launched its new cloud data platform, which utilized AWS and Snowflake.

  • Used AWS Lambda functions and built Python data pipelines to integrate new data sources. Built custom pipeline using Azure Analysis Services’ (AAS) REST API, enabling 50% of the company to explore and analyze dimensionalized data in Excel.
  • Created, documented, and implemented release process. Onboarded three team members as release captains and mentored four developers on Git best practices.
  • Automated upload of production code to AWS using Bitbucket Pipelines, saving 30 minutes per release every two weeks, and removing possibility of manual error. Enabled customizable ETL alerting to Microsoft Teams from AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS).

Education

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Master's degree・Applied Urban Science and Informatics
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor's degree・Economics
Aug 2009 - May 2013

Certifications & Awards

Jenkins, From Zero to Hero: Become a DevOps Jenkins Master
Udemy | Jan 2022