Pura

Senior Data Engineer

Dutch Engineer

I can write blog posts, LinkedIn posts, demos, or share advice about your data or machine learning infrastructure.

Founder

EcZachly Inc

Instructor and Lead Teacher Assistant

Zwift

Build long-term roadmaps for machine learning platform and code best practices for the data science team
Orchestrated the implementation of DBT to build data lineage and shorten debugging time by 30%
Deployed XGBoost models to identify customers who will might or not subscribe in free trials. 
Lead a team to provide the best short-term and long-term solutions to reduce service downtime by 50%
Own e-commerce datasets to lower handle data quality, data contracts, and resolve pipelines downtime
Tools: AWS, Kafka, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Scala, Spark, SQL, Airflow, Jenkins,  DBT

Senior Data and ML Platform Engineer

Clinical Trial Media

Documented technical specifications of workflows to be presented to stakeholders and executive team
Automated and optimized existing workflows using Prefect and dbt to adhere to best practices
Tools: DBT, Prefect, Azure, Azure Data Factory, Python, SQL, Tableau Server, Docker

Qumulo

Lead migration of on-premise pipelines to cloud capable of handling 210+ GB per day
Produce key metrics to counsel sales and engineering and drive product feature decisions
Integrate linters, tests, and CICD to improve Data Science code quality 
Tools: AWS, Redshift, S3, Postgresql, Pyspark, Fargate, Python, Gitlab CICD, SQL, MongoDB, Tableau

Data Scientist

Blueprint Technologies

Created 30,000 customers’ metric sheets that calculated employees behavior for 1.5 months before and 1.5 months after covid and presented to the c-executive suite of the F500 company 
Developed daily pipelines with >500 TB that build employee behavior metric sheets on request
Productionalize Decision Tree and Logistic Regression to prioritize likely buyers
Optimize SQL and PowerShell scripts to reduce running script from 3 days to 15 minutes.

Tools: Azure Databricks, Python, Plotly, PowerShell, C#, COSMOS, SQL

Data Engineer

Redapt Inc

Migrating Hadoop cluster on VMs to Google Cloud Platform's Dataproc cluster
Importing, cleaning, and visualizing data in Power BI dashboards
Building a storage infrastructure system to identify frequent patterns and errors 
Incorporating Machine Learning algorithms to recommend new items for over a million items and for several thousands of customers. 
Tools: Hadoop, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, Power BI, Azure Databricks, Azure ML Studio, Azure Blob Storage

Apex Learning

Build a python script to obtain Zendesk's data via its RESTful API for marketing reports
Redesigned monthly and yearly reports by incorporating Tableau Software to evaluate tutors’ performance 
Implement Salesforce.com to create an easily accessible school’s credit acceptance database for marketing campaigns 
Support middle and high school students’ through the Apex Learning Virtual School curriculum

Online Tutoring and Data Analysis

Projects

ILest: Ionic Liquid estimation Tool
Team project, Implemented LASSO, SVR, and MLP-Regressor on 10,000 data points to estimate the desired properties of ionic liquid binary mixtures for electric battery applications
Tools: scikit-learn, Pandas, RDKit, Matplotlib

Data-Driven Design of Perovskite
Team Project, Carried out LASSO, and supervised neural networks on a reduced data set to identify the optimal combination of elements in the hybrid organic perovskites (crystals)
Tools: scikit-learn, Pandas, RDKit, Matplotlib

Stack Overflow: Suggest a Tag for My Post Please 
Queried 150k posts and users details to determine tags needed based upon a posts' body or score.
Tools: PySpark, Neo4j, Plotly, Python, Cypher, SQL

How Much Will Your Videogame Sell For? 
Web scraping video game tweets and statistics from VGChartz to predict their unit sales using machine learning
Tools: BeautifulSoup, Matploblib, multiprocessing, requests, plotly

Twitter Scraping Tool
Web-scraped old tweets from the twitter page to eliminate the usage of the Twitter Official API and decrease the time needed by 60%. Tools: pyquery, requests, datetime

Senior Data & ML Platform Engineer | dutchengineer.substack.com | Host of Ask A Data Mentor Podcast

Built long-term roadmaps for data platform and machine learning platform
Experience in designing, analyzing, and visualizing large (>500 TB) datasets 
Build and manage multiple ETL infrastructures to identify text patterns and detect network and hardware anomalies
Prepare critical metrics to guide product decisions in people, healthcare, computer games, and chemical analytics
Multilingual (Dutch, English, Spanish)

Keywords: Airflow, AWS (Cloudwatch,  ECS, EKS, Fargate, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis, Databricks, Postgresql, S3), Azure (Azure Functions, Azure ML Studio, Databricks, PowerBI, SQL Server), BentoML, C++, Datadog, Docker, ElasticSearch, Flink, Kafka, Keras, Kubernetes, Hive, High Performance Computing, Github Actions, Gitlab CICD,  Pagerduty, PowerBI,  Prefect, Python (DBT, Numpy, Pydantic, Sklearn,Scipy), Pyspark, Neural Network, Natural Language Processing, MLFlow, MongoDB, Recommendations, Sagemaker, Scala, SparkML, SQL, Tableau, Terraform

Sarah Floris, MS

Trusted Space, Inc.

Senior Data Scientist

The Washington Post

Numerica Corporation

Research Scientist

University of Colorado Boulder

Lecturer

Emory University

I teach undergraduate mathematics at Emory University.

Visiting Assistant Professor

BB&T

I am a member of BB&T's Quantitative Credit Risk Analytics Group.

Quantitative Team Leader

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Work closely with ORNL researchers in using the resources of the OLCF effectively and efficiently, including:
 - Developing and porting of scalable science applications and algorithms for OLCF and other leadership computers. 
- Debugging and tuning applications for high performance.
- Applying large-scale computational methodologies to meet scientific objectives.

Conduct research and report results in journal publications, conference papers and technical manuals.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Sandia National Laboratories

Worked with Dr. Jordan Massad and other collaborators in Component Science and Mechanics.
Translated a component dynamics model from Fortran 90 to MATLAB.
Improved and documented component dynamics model in MATLAB.
Performed model validation, verification, and uncertainty quantification studies with DAKOTA.

Graduate Intern

As an Applied Mathematician, I bridge the gaps between domain-specific scientists, computer/computational scientists, and the world of mathematics. I have worked on many interdisciplinary research projects from quantum computational chemistry to vector ecology, and enjoy collaborating with, teaching, and learning from scientists from other fields. I'm proud to be a team member at Numerica Corporation, where I get to work on exciting projects that have a real-world impact on missile defense and space situational awareness.

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