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

RapidScale

RapidScale is the managed cloud partner that turns technology into your biggest competitive advantage. Our comprehensive portfolio of private and public cloud solutions is tailored to your needs and backed by one of the deepest benches of certified experts in the industry. We make innovation easy, by bringing you the latest solutions to keep your technology platforms responsive and delivering the consistent results your business deserves.

RapidScale’s mission is to provide businesses with a personalized cloud solution backed by the most customer-oriented service in the industry.
At RapidScale, we adapt technology to work your way, freeing you to focus on what matters.

We start by meeting you where you are. Our advanced managed services are designed to enable your team, with a wealth of intuitive technology spanning from public and private cloud services to end-to-end security.

We’re ahead of the curve, so you are, too. Our teams are experts in the latest technology. They prepare you for what’s coming next, so you can find and keep your competitive edge.

We’re not just providers – we’re advisors. We remain by your side, creating a plan to continue optimizing your customer’s experience so that your focus is locked on achieving your next goal – and the next one after that.

RapidScale is owned by Cox Business, the commercial division of Cox Communications. A family-owned business with a 125-year track record of innovation and success, Cox is the foundation of RapidScale’s continued investment in an expanding portfolio of solutions that will simplify IT so businesses can unleash innovation.

See www.RapidScale.net for much more!

Director Alliance/Partnership Management

dbt Labs

dbt Labs is on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since pioneering the practice of analytics engineering through the creation of dbt - the open source data transformation tool made for anyone that knows SQL - we've been fortunate to watch more than 30,000 companies use dbt to build faster and more reliable analytics workflows.

dbt Labs also supports more than 3,800 customers using dbt Cloud, the centralized development experience for analysts and engineers alike to safely deploy, monitor, and investigate that code—all in one web-based UI. There are 15,000 trained analytic engineers and over 100,000 dbt Community members.

Director, Global Technology Alliances 

Coiled

Coiled scales AI and ML applications in Python using Dask in AWS, GCP,  or Azure. More than 2.7B Dask jobs have been hosted by Coiled for data professionals, scientists, and researchers around the globe including: Capital One, Anthem Health, D.E. Shaw, Zebra Medical Vision, NVIDIA, and the USAF to solve challenges in business, research, and science. 

Coiled is a remote-first company with the best and brightest, and led by the initial author of Dask, Matt Rocklin. Explore the Coiled Partner ecosystem of leading Consulting Services Companies, Technology and Software Providers, and Resellers worldwide. We are hiring!

Director of Alliances

Rackspace Technology

Responsible for delivering day-to-day direct sales and business development. This includes formalizing strategic relationships and driving revenue with target and strategic enterprise accounts across all industry verticals and channels including: direct customers, OEM/ISV's, global and regional systems integration firms, technology alliances, agents, value-added resellers, and partnerships.


Rackspace helps you transform the way you do business. 

At Rackspace Technology, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation. By managing apps, data, security and multiple clouds, we are the best choice to help customers get to the cloud, innovate with new technologies and maximize their IT investments. As a recognized Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, we are uniquely positioned to close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow. Passionate about customer success, we provide unbiased expertise, based on proven results, across all the leading technologies. And across every interaction worldwide, we deliver Fanatical Experience TM — the best customer service experience in the industry. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor and others as one of the best places to work. 

Learn more at www.rackspace.com

Director of Sales

Responsible for recruitment, activation, and enablement of strategic alliances, such as AWS, GCP, Microsoft, DellEMC, NetApp and HP; master agents such as Avant, SHI, CDW, Intelisys, and others; GSI's such as TCS, Cognizant, Infosys, CTP, and others; ISV's such as Couchbase, Mongo, Hortonworks, and Cloudera, and others such as Starpoint, DataFactZ, Akamai, and many others to deliver direct sales and business development.

Director of Global Partner Sales

Verizon

Responsible for delivering day-to-day direct sales and business development. This includes formalizing strategic relationships and driving revenue with target accounts across all channels including direct customers, OEM/ISV's, systems integration firms, technology alliances and partnerships.

Director of Sales, Connected Technology, IoT, and Cloud

Sales and business development for Mid-Atlantic Region to help large enterprises leverage Web 2.0, open source software platforms and business models in the deployment of next generation internet technologies.

Director of Enterprise Sales

u1.net

Founder and CEO of IT services company that delivered fixed fee, fixed phase, and t & m based Web 1.0 integration and application development services; consulting and professional services, 7 x 24 data center, and application and managed services. Sold company in 2006.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Bluestone 

Director of Professional Services Division

Director of Professional Services

Covalent Systems Corp.

Area Sales Director

Abbott

First US-based Sales representative for EMEA based start-up delivering custom developed IV sets, parenteral feeding, and syringes to the Red Cross, US DoD, DCASMA, NY Blood Center, and others. Acquired by Abbott in 1983

Executive Sales Representative

Global Sales | Strategic Alliances | Partnerships | Channels

Ron Guida is a high performance sales and alliances executive who creates and builds ecosystems and consistently delivers above plan sales results in advanced technology products and services. 

Currently, Ron works with market leading AI, ML, Cloud, and SaaS products and services. 

Previously, Ron helped to launch and grow a number of successful companies, including: Covalent Systems, ETSEC, Bluestone, Optaros, and u1.net. Ron has worked with large enterprises, such as Verizon and Rackspace. And with startups such as Coiled and dbt Labs. 

Ron also mentors and works closely with many local and international businesses, entrepreneurs, including emerging technology products and services companies in the creation, development, and execution of key sales, marketing, operations, and delivery strategies. Companies include: Localgistics, Vork, Zircon Computing, Thumbtack Technology, TringApps, Ateji, ListenLogic, RapidValue, Omnigon, Rock Daisy, speed & function, Bullseye, Vognition, and VyB. 

Ron's experience includes direct sales and implementation of successful IoT and IaaS projects to the world's top companies, generating billions in revenue, and delivering significant investor and shareholder returns. Ron is an expert in the development and implementation of key sales and marketing strategies, lead generation, and in establishing alliances, partnerships, and channels.

Ron is a frequent speaker at leading industry events, and has published several white papers on high performance and cloud computing.

M: 1-856-266-6190
E: ron@ronguida.com 

Specialties: AI, Data and Analytics Platforms, IoT, IaaS, Enterprise Mobile Application Development, Mobile Integration and Analytics, Social Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, IT Services, Security Services, Ultra High Performance Software and Services, Adaptive Distributed Computing, Application Development, Web Integration, Productized Services, Professional Services

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