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

Kate Strachnyi

DATAcated

DATAcated® to helping clients share their stories through content creation and amplification. Providing custom 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 for companies focused on innovating in the data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence space.

Managing the DATAcated Speaker Hub, a platform dedicated to connecting top data, analytics and AI experts with event organizers. I oversee speaker recruitment, manage client relationships, and ensure a seamless booking process for in-person events & virtual conferences, webinars, and corporate events. Enabling speakers to expand their reach while helping event organizers find the perfect experts for their audiences. We also provide amplification services to spread the word about the events!

Manager of DATAcated Speaker Hub

Writing the 'Running DATAcated' book on substack - with a goal to turn the blog articles into a BOOK about the journey of running the media company + running / hiking adventures.

Running DATAcated Writer

You can find prior LinkedIn live shows (and future ones) on the DATAcated On Air podcast - https://anchor.fm/datacated

Podcast Host - DATAcated On Air

The DATAcated Expo will provide the community with an opportunity to explore and discover innovative technologies in data science & analytics.

Hear from expert speakers that will provide real-life case studies and demos of technologies across a variety of data science & analytics processes. Speakers will provide 10-min lightning talks and we’ll take questions from the live audience.

The presentations will be centered around the data analytics process and will take participants on a journey from identifying the business use case to collecting, cleaning, exploring, visualizing and ultimately communicating insights.  

This live event will provide several opportunities for networking and building relationships in the data community.

Host - DATAcated Expo

The conference is packed with incredible insights from the very best speakers!
Speakers will deliver 10 min ‘lightning’ talks and will stay on for a few minutes for some live Q&A.
The conference is hosted on LinkedIn Live and is FREE to attend!
We’ll have plenty of fun giveaways provided by our Community Partners.

Host - DATAcated Conference May 18-19, 2021

Run Wild AI

Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer

O'Reilly Media

Author of ColorWise: A Data Storyteller's Guide to the Intentional Use of Color

Author

LinkedIn

Having a strong personal brand can help you stand out from competitors and colleagues and attract relevant opportunities.

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

IADSS

Advisory Board Member

Deloitte

Chief of Staff - Head of Commercial Business

Program Manager | Data Analytics

Insights Strategy Manager & Tableau Developer

- Assessment of risk governance practices measured against relevant bank supervisory guidance and leading practices (e.g. Enterprise Risk Assessment Process, New Product Approval Process, Risk Reporting, Committee Structure, etc.)
 - Prepared periodic program status/progress reports. Assisting with building out roadmap of future phase deliverables and maintenance of project plans. Escalating issues & risks to ensure timely remediation
- Provided assistance with writing responses to regulatory letters (MOUs, MRAs, MRIAs)
- Developed an inventory for regulation W requirements (including Dodd-Frank Act impact), and assessed the applicability of the regulation to each business line within a large financial institution 
- Assisted large foreign banks with Foreign Enhanced Prudential Standards (FEPS) implementation (including Governance, Data, Risk Management, Implementation Plan, etc.,) 
 - Revised current or establishing new policies and procedures as well as ensuring that various departments/functions have relevant policies, procedures and guidelines which reflect current business practices

Manager, Risk Mgmt / Regulatory Compliance

Bank Leumi USA

- Involved in the establishment of the Operational Risk Policy & Procedures (per Parent Company guidelines, U.S. regulations, and Basel Directives)
- Provided assistance to Risk Champions on how to assess Operational Risk and how to use the Management of Operational Risk System (MOR)
- Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)- took part in the establishment of methodology,  interviewing business units (surveys) and setting risk mitigation plans for High risk items
- Assisted CRO in quarterly reporting to the Risk Management Committee of the Board (Risk Dashboard)
- Assisted CRO on the annual submission of Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)  
– Developed New Products Approval Procedure and New Products Committee Charter
Basel II/III - Performed gap analysis on Basel II & III Directives 
- Reviewed and revised Risk Management Manual Operating Procedures (MOPs)
- Participated in KMV Moody’s Project to calculate credit risk metrics (PD & LGD)
- Assessed and tracked audit items (Internal Audit, Parent Company, & Examiners)
Committee Participation 
- Participated on Operational Risk Management Committee & Basel ICAAP Steering Committee

Risk Analyst for Chief Risk Officer

Global Association of Risk Professionals

-Managed a sales process by qualifying prospects, establishing relationships & identifying opportunities. 
-Assisted with the planning and development of direct marketing and data-related projects. 
-Handled client relationship management process through the use of CRM tool (SalesForce) and used existing relationships for cross-selling opportunities.

Business Development

FGI FINANCE

Developing Credit Committee reports - financial statement analysis and accounts receivable aging report analysis to determine lending structure.

Underwriter

First Investors Financial Services

Involved in setting up appointments with prospects (cold calls), and creation/maintenance of client records using B.O.S.S. (CRM tool)

Financial Services Rep

DATAcated™ | Branding | DataIQ100 | Marketing | Media | ColorWise | DataVenger

Ask not what influencers can do for you… ask what happens when they’re DATAcated influencers!

YAY - I'm so excited that you saw my profile and wanted to get to know me better!

As the founder of DATAcated, I help companies amplify their brand and expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.  I'm a content creator with over 300k followers across LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms. I also run a DATAcated Plus program with 35+ influencers that can be hired to 'make a splash' on social media.  Oh yea, I also manage the DATAcated Expert / Speaker Hub where we have over 50 engaging speakers and experts that you can hire for conferences, webinars, books, blogs, and more.

I have been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Data Science and Analytics and as a DataIQ USA100. I am also the author of ColorWise: A Data Storyteller's Guide to the Intentional Use of Color (published with O'Reilly). 

Connect with me on social media and explore the DATAcated website for more resources and opportunities. datacated.com

DATAcated® to helping clients share their stories through content creation and amplification. Providing custom 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 for companies focused on innovating in the data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence space. 

This might be the group therapy we all need before 2026 AI planning starts.

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BARC just analyzed 421 organizations to find out what separates the top AI performers from everyone else.

The difference comes down to how companies operationalize AI, govern it, and measure actual results.

On Dec 3, 2025 (11am ET), BARC’s Shawn Rogers and Merv Adrian will unpack the findings from their Lessons from the Leading Edge study. They’ll be joined by:

Eleanor Treharne-Jones, CEO at Bigeye (data observability done right)

Jeff Fried, Director of Platform Strategy & Innovation at InterSystems (bridging architecture and outcomes)

Amandine Mely, Senior PreSales at Board (turning AI insights into real decisions)

Covering AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. influencer marketing agency | data & AI content creation & amplification | speaker & expert placement

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