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EXPERIENCE

Production systems.
Measured outcomes.

My work sits where distributed data engineering, operational reliability and stakeholder decision-making meet.

01

Sep 2025 — Dec 2025

Texas, USA

Data Engineer · Contract

Sanizer IT Services

  • Designed low-latency Databricks/Spark streaming pipelines for real-time ML anomaly detection.
  • Built an ML-ready feature store on AWS S3 and Snowflake with versioned, automated feature pipelines.
  • Integrated statistical drift checks, lineage tracking and Tableau monitoring into production workflows.
DatabricksSparkAWSSnowflakeML monitoring
02

Jun 2023 — Jul 2025

Ohio, USA

Data Engineer · Contract

Nationwide Insurance

  • Improved downstream claims and policy data availability by 30% with optimized batch and streaming pipelines.
  • Migrated six Informatica and Perl workflows to the Databricks Lakehouse, reducing runtime by approximately 25%.
  • Built automated data quality, Splunk/New Relic observability and Power BI reliability reporting.
PySparkSQLGuidewirePower BIData quality
03

Jan 2023 — May 2023

Texas, USA

Data Engineer · Contract

Anthem

  • Engineered ETL pipelines processing 200M+ healthcare records monthly.
  • Designed HIPAA-conscious AWS lakehouse controls and ingestion-layer PII masking.
  • Reduced Snowflake compute cost by 20% while improving analytical query latency.
HealthcareAWSSnowflakeHIPAAPython
04

Summer 2022

Texas, USA

Data Engineer Intern

CloudVik LLC

  • Worked with Hadoop, SQL and Python to prepare cloud-ready datasets.
  • Migrated analytical datasets into AWS and GCP environments.
  • Built Power BI validation dashboards for migration quality checks.
HadoopAWSGCPSQLPower BI

EDUCATION

Research depth,
engineering pragmatism.

Doctor of Computer ScienceUniversity of the Potomac · Expected 2029

Research interests: distributed systems, machine learning and trustworthy data-intensive applications.

M.S. in Data ScienceUniversity of New Haven · December 2022

Graduate foundation in statistical learning, data systems and applied analytics.