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Founder

Ardent AI

I think AI will disrupt data engineering in a significant way. I’m investing in Ardent to accelerate that disruption!

Angel Investor

Peony Health

I invested in Peony Health because I believe habits are greatly impacted by neurochemistry and Susie Chen is a technical founder with business chops who will deliver on their mission

Illuminate AI

I'm one of the new Bay Area chapter leads for Illuminate AI! 

I help make events better and build this community to the next level!

Chapter Lead

Mage

I'm advising Mage on how to make a data engineering friendly Airflow competitor that will be the next generation of job orchestration!

Advisor

A House in Utah

Former Child

SylphAI

I’ve invested in SylphAI because I’m passionate about building community in AI that helps everyone meet their growth goals and fulfill their potential

Airbnb

Changed Airbnb's availability definition from "did a host set a rule that blocked this night" to "can a trip be booked that contains this night" 

Consolidate the availability definition across the company. Saving >500 TBs in the cloud and shrinking the data set to 3% its old size.


Decreased the landing time of Airbnb's unit economics dataset from 3 days to 1 1/2 days. Built a long-term roadmap to further increase the quality of this critical dataset. 

Improved the quality of online systems at Airbnb to be easily compilable by Spark pipelines to compute metrics offline. 

Lead a team of 6 engineers to deliver on the MIDAS initiative to increase the data quality of the Commercial Products org. 

Upleveled smart pricing at Airbnb by improving the feature engineering and latency of the data used to train the smart pricing model.

Staff Data Engineer - TC $600k ($220k Salary $320k Stock $60k bonus)

Netflix

Built a machine learning feedback system that allowed security engineers to label corporate user behavior as risky or not risky.

Built Asset Inventory - a graph database solution that is a map of all of Netflix's cloud infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer - TC ~$575k ($550k salary + 5% options)

I built a pipeline that measures the cloud infrastructure impact on AB tests, saving Netflix millions by allowing them to make smarter AB test rollout decisions.

Senior Data Engineer - TC ~$365k ($365k salary + 5% options)

Facebook

- Managed a 10 PB+ Hive data warehouse
- Consolidated and conformed company-wide growth metrics (across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook) into a single, company-wide view. 
- Optimized machine learning feature set generation pipelines (200+ TB/day) from having a 4 day latency to having a 1 day latency. While also dropping compute costs for those pipelines 4x. 
- Reduced core notification data set latencies from 36 hours to < 8 hours. 
- Migrated 50% of notifications pipelines from using Hive to use Spark, Presto, or real-time streaming.
- Cut compute cost from notifications pipelines by 40% over the course of 9 months.

Data Engineer - TC $185k ($135k salary, $50k stock)

I love to teach. I post about #dataengineering and #mentalhealth daily. 

Many years of data engineering experience doing growth analytics at Facebook, security infrastructure at Netflix, and pricing and availability infrastructure at Airbnb. 

You can find me by looking up EcZachly on all social networks 

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Zach Wilson

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Strategic Advisor at omi!

I believe in Nik Shevchenko and I want to start having a much more data rich life!

Founder @ DataExpert.io, use code BF for 40% off!

Hitting 500k followers here on LinkedIn feels like a dream come true!

I started posting every day back on December 12th, 2020 and I had no idea it would impact my life in such a profound way

I met so many amazing creators along this journey like Carly, Aishwarya, Joe, Chip, Delia, Li, Annie, Jhillika and many more! 

To celebrate 500k followers, You can use code 500k at DataExpert.io/500k to get 50% off! This deal ends today at midnight pacific time! 

How long until I hit 1 million?

We're making some important updates to the Snowflake + dbt boot camp on January 6th! 

- We are limiting seats to 60 students to keep quality of instruction high (we are already halfway booked up)
- We are adding Cortex lessons for both vector search and document parsing
- We are adding a lesson change data capture 
- We are adding an Iceberg and Snowflake module for those interested in the open data format! 

If you're interested in some early Black Friday deals on this boot camp, send me a DM!

I'm launching a free data science interview boot camp with Vaishali Macwan tomorrow!

For the next four weekends, Vaishali will go over the most important things to land a product data scientist role!

- Week 1 Getting Noticed
You can't land a job without landing an interview. Master the job search skills quickly!

- Week 2: The fundamentals and interview formats
SQL is absolutely essential for data scientists. We'll be covering the different interview formats this week too

- Week 3: How to pass the product sense and company fit rounds
Product sense is one of the most difficult interview rounds for data scientists. Vaishali has mastered this round and will pull back the curtain!

- Week 4: The behavioral round and negotiation
These two rounds are critical to sealing the deal for your new data science job and getting paid the most you can!

You can join the free boot camp here: https://lnkd.in/gj7xxGU3

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Supporting the agency with modernization efforts and technology implementation. Implementation of a new technology that added new features for release in 2021. A joint effort with Consumer Response and Technology & Innovation. Daily use of postgres, docker, SQL, Python, AWS(EMR,S3,EC2), and Elasticsearch.

2021 projects:
- Provide support to Complaint Analytics.
- Developing docker environments and settings for testing pipelines.
- AWS development POC (stream and batch processing) using EMR and open source D.Q.
- Provide support to cross functional teams.
- Create ETL process to manage metadata for all data pipelines used and create data model.
- Experience with AWS EMR, Kinesis, API Gateway, S3, Glue, cloudwatch, and lambda.
- Building docker containers using YAML and images used PGADMIN, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.


Successful outcomes 2021:
• Provided product's continued success in development by processing 7.5 million records in search.
• Implemented concurrency process for pipeline completion and increase efficiency by 50%.
• Reduced OCR data processing time by 50%. More than 5,000  data points processed daily.
• Added new features to display statistics for data pipeline processing.
• Modernized tech stack by refactoring data pipelines to improve performance and leverage new technologies.
• Implemented Python data processing from database to Elasticsearch api for CFPB internal tool (400,000+ data points processed in July). 
• Worked with developer to provide business requirements to correct 200,000+ data points affecting review of process.


-Created workflows and roadmap for organization to build many data sources from data
lakes to data bricks environment.

Data Engineer

Accenture Federal Services

Discovery Lab Product Development:

Projects 

- Building a data collection automation process for management.
-  Use of Natural Language Processing to extract and analyze text data.
-  Used Spacy package to extract text data from sources for a Machine Learning model.
-  Work with Program Manager to test use cases and scenarios for the product.
-  Develop automation process using Python and SQL tools.
-  Work with team members in project to polish and optimize pipeline code.
-  Develop data pipelines using python from different data collection sources.
-  Web scrape and develop data collection scripts for automation using Beautful Soup and Selenium.


Operations Lead:

-  Promoted to lead AWS project efforts and managing two Data Engineers. 
-  Build Data Pipeline using python scripts
- Work with team to set up APIs for scalability (Amazon API Gateway)
- Lead the Engineering Group
- Attend Data Science modeling group for data support
- Provide updates to leadership and sales
- Work with Data Governance lead to build database standard

Data Scientist | Applied Intelligence

Applied Intelligence 

Powered by Management Consulting and Technology, AFS Applied Intelligence (AIX) is a full-service data-native practice group that helps federal departments and agencies unlock business value from their data, improve visibility and performance across the enterprise, enhance decision-support and mission outcomes, and accelerate digital capabilities at scale. 

We are at the forefront of helping federal agencies apply more innovative approaches to achieve their mission objectives and improve operations. As leaders in advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation, our cross-disciplinary team of data science, data engineering and data visualization strategists and practitioners provide deep technical, functional and mission expertise, innovative solutions, and tested methodologies that help agencies collect and measure what matters to them, intelligently harness emerging technologies, optimize decision-making, and holistically and responsibly drive end-to-end change.

Capabilities

Our offerings for the Federal sector are designed to support customers at every phase of their data journey:

Artificial Intelligence and Automation
We help our clients establish strong practices and executable roadmaps that set the stage for any AI or intelligent automation transformation. Our offering includes AI Strategy, AI Systems and Service Design, Responsible AI, Conversational AI, and Robotic Process Automation.


ASSETS AND ACCELERATORS

We support portfolios and our AFS clients through multiple channels: 
The Discovery Lab offers prototyping, strategy, and design services across the full spectrum of Applied Intelligence offerings. Co-located at our Digital Studio in Washington, D.C., the Discovery Lab is our hub for data discovery, innovation, and emerging technologies.

Operations Lead (Remote) | Applied Intelligence

Verisk

Earned Verisk Way to Go Award for excellence in data analysis and research:

issue of misreporting 1,300 policies for Geico from a data load was resolved through data analysis and collaboration with development to resolve any issues to state DMV.


Product Owner: 

Guidewire Accelerator. Released Product that supports client's data implementation process.

Coverage Verifier Conversion Project. Released first iteration of program to clean up data preprocessing step. 

Data Quality Team :
Analyzed current format of data ingestion process. Communicate with management on process to improve data processing.  Capture missing data elements for each customer in QA process. Train team members to report data quality process, business logic, and implementation of new logic for customers.  Work with development team and QA team to test data program and business logic.  Prioritize and release features for the project in two week sprints in agile.

Migration Consultant:
Worked with ETL group to consult business logic and QA for Coverage Verifier migration from Legacy (Mainframe) to the cloud (AWS). Worked extensively with group during meetings to provide business requirements.

Technology Solutions:
Worked extensively to study Coverage Verifier flow to understand issue of missing reports from the clients. Investigate files transfer protocol from the Mainframe to production SFTP server. Discovered with team of the corrupted files when the network disconnects. Documented and reported incident to management to execute a solution with data team and data quality team.

Business Analyst

WeLIFT.co

As a Data Engineer, my role is to migrate processes from the old system to a new platform. Before the analysis, I need to build the structure and pipes. Once this process is completed, I will be able to  generate reports and collect and manage data flow for the organization.

Lead Data Scientist

MedAssets

Client: RWJ Barnabas Health

Identified data quality issue within client's application and used SQL functions to update  database  records. Leveraged the test environment to quickly test and create a new table and data set to push the update to production. I quickly resolved the issue for Robert Wood Johnson's one of many facilities in New Jersey experiencing inefficiencies in data quality.

Data Analyst

New Jersey Citizen Action

Data Analyst:
Provided industry and technical knowledge on customer relationship management for a new start up. Provided QA for new data collection system.

Jersey City project:
Manage the organization's project to provide financial services to communities in Jersey City. Consult on best practice on financial services and products for consumers who are in debt. Collect data during interviews and provide an outline to clients looking to improve their finances and decrease spend.

Consultant

Ipsos

Mastercard 2015 Project:
 Analyzed, cleaned, and standardized data for Mastercard's credit card data for the North American Market. Worked with Ipsos Loyalty director, Mastercard consultant, and intern to prepare the data for analysis by using outlier detection method, statistical inference and comparison of means to understand consumers's spending habits and top ten credit card usage in their wallet. The success of Mastercard's consumer and small business study in 2015 resulted in expansion of the study in 2016 to cover South American and Canadian markets. 

My Personal Accomplishment:
Teaching my intern on the use of SPSS syntax to automate data cleaning process, and working together to prepare the data for our client.

Statistical Analyst

Kids Corporation II

•	Administered surveys to one hundred students for summer program evaluation
•	Created surveys to collect data on the impact of afterschool programs in Newark Public Schools
•	Used Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS tools to create charts and tables for Statistical Analysis
•	Created a final report for partners to continue funding Kids Corporation II for Summer 2015

Research Associate

The Financial Clinic

	Managed two sites in New Jersey for direct services and achieved contract obligation
	Documented and tracked customer data for data manager
	Provided workshops and presentations for NY/NJ customers 
	Formed partnerships with non-profit organizations throughout New Jersey
	Invited speaker for the Lift Up project in Savannah, Georgia for services and issues that come with financial hardships

Financial Fellow

Passionate and energetic data professional who loves a challenge. I am interested in intellectual work with rigour. I look for opportunities that offers unique perspectives on social and economic issues. I consult for companies in delivering results for their business using theoretical and mathematical concepts.

I have implemented technology solutions for government agencies, healthcare hospitals, financial services, and Insurance companies (16 clients). Able to efficiently solve the customer's ETL project issues. Work with technical and non technical staff to provide clarity and solutions to customer's needs in technology. 

I enjoy working with people and helping them achieve their potential to reach success. I build partnerships and relationships with my clients, and work with them to meet their needs. I work with different businesses and IT development teams to work on technical and operational improvements that lead to innovation.

Indoor and beach volleyball player when not doing data science in my free time.

Specialties:
•Data Science (Natural Language Processing, Regular Expression text extraction)
•Data Engineering (AWS cloud implementation)
•Product Management
•Writer Contributor (Guidewire manual)
• Python Developer
• Customer Implementation
• Configuration Management and Cloud Lead

Program Languages/Technologies:
•R
•Python (Pandas, Spacy, Great Expectations, Boto3)
•Pyspark
•Docker
•SQL (Mysql, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, DB2, TablePlus, Postgres)
• Cobol/JCL
• Mainframe
•  Linux (Ubuntu)
• Go Lang
• Stanford Core NLP
• AWS (S3, RDS, Glue, API Gateway, Lambda function)
• Azure Devops (Data Pipeline, Git)
• Tableau (Stacked Bar Chart, Heat map, Dual Axis Graph, Custom Calculations)
• Tesseract OCR  & Google Cloud Vision API 
• Salesforce (SOQL Query and REST API)
• Puppet and Ansible

Accomplishments:
2020 CFPB: Technology implementation & Concurrency

2020 Project Covid-19: Worked with Data Governance lead to build ETL solutions for government agencies and develop the product with the engineering team. Developed scripts alongside engineering team for automation process.

2018 Guidewire Accelerator:  Working with Development and Business Analysts in testing and analyzing data for this new product to help insurers convert data easily from their system.

2015 Mastercard Consumer and Small Business Study: The study resulted in expansion of the work in 2016 to cover South American and Canadian markets. Understanding credit card usage from consumers and small business owners.

For speaking and podcasts opportunities, reach out here.

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