About Me
I'm a Data Engineer with experience building data pipelines that handle millions of daily events in Snowflake, designing data warehouses from scratch at startups, and creating AI agents to streamline workflows. I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of technology, and I occasionally share those ideas here.
Professional Experience
I've spent the last few years diving deep into the startup world. Most recently, I was the first Data Engineer hire at a telemedicine startup, where I built their data warehouse from the ground up. I refactored their ETL costs by 90% by switching from Fivetran to a Federated Query architecture using DBT, AWS Redshift, and S3.
Before that, I was the second Data Engineer hire at a digital therapeutics company. I helped build their data warehouse from the ground up, co-developing an in-house ETL library and setting up the data lake/warehouse ecosystem using Python, Snowflake, and various AWS services.
Along the way, I've mentored junior analysts, implemented data governance policies (less exciting but necessary), and optimized more data pipelines than I can count. I've become fluent in the languages of the data world: Python, SQL, Scala, and Javascript.
Personal Projects
When I'm not wrangling data for work, I've been analyzing Pokémon Showdown VGC data and building AI tools to automate Chart.js creation. I've also been learning to play guitar and sing, which has led to some interesting parallels between programming and music composition that I've written about here.
Tech Stack
My daily drivers include Python, JavaScript, SQL, and Scala, supported by libraries like Pandas, PySpark, and the usual web scraping suspects (Requests, BeautifulSoup). I'm comfortable with Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL, and have extensively used AWS (Glue, Lambda, S3, AppFlow) and Google Cloud. For visualization, I toggle between Tableau and Chart.js, and orchestrate data pipelines with DBT and Airflow. Recently, I've been experimenting with the OpenAI and Perplexity APIs because, well, who isn't these days? I also like to dabble in iOS development with Swift.
Theme
This site is based on the Mediumish theme for Jekyll, but has been heavily customized.