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Work Experience

• Co-Founder - Technical, 

  Jun, 2019 - Present

  ChordStrategy is a strategic consulting group focused on their core product: theBattleOfGiants.com. Offering alternative-data as a service for the strategic planning of companies, the Battle of Giants leverages Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and extraction/ingestion of recruiting data to be able to offer insight on not only a single companies movements in a market, but also entire industries.

  • MVP launch in the 3rd quarter of 2019

  • Building up a robust data extraction pipeline which performs daily ingestion of live data into an analytics cluster

  • Reducing ETL cycle times from a month to a handful of hours

  • Reducing on-boarding of a new data source from a few weeks to a handful of hours

  • Overhauling our Wordpress site...never thought I'd have to go back to working in PHP...

• Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineer - Open Source Maintainer, 

  Dec, 2018 - Present

  Data Mill helps organizations utilize modern data infrastructure and data science to power analytics, products, and services. With a focus on open source projects, DataMill.co actively gives back to the greater data-engineering community.

  • Open source maintainer for the official https://www.singer.io/ PostgreSQL target. Took over the project from DataMill's founder, and made substantial improvements to the over all feature-set and architecture.

  • Building on the work done for https://github.com/datamill-co/target-postgres, built and maintain https://github.com/datamill-co/target-redshift, and https://github.com/datamill-co/target-snowflake

  • Championed the usage of GraphQL internally. Identified various improvements and issues with the Python implementation.

  • Built an analytics and reporting engine using GraphQL, Singer, and DBT technologies. Allowed for building quickly a robust React frontend on top of the client's dataset.

  • https://github.com/datamill-co/target-postgres

  • https://github.com/datamill-co/target-redshift

  • https://github.com/datamill-co/target-snowflake

• Co-founder - Owner/Operator, 

  Dec, 2018 - Present

  BeNiceNow Design is a personal project company. This has afforded me the ability to vet out fun ideas, take on freelancing projects, and have a creative outlet for things like prints, textiles, design, etc.

  • Working with Current Projects MKE for shop improvements, and space efficiency improvements. See more at https://www.mccawbudsberg.com/

  • Designing textiles and prints based on the Milwaukee People's Flag but incorporating local businesses to the Milwaukee Area

  • Top design category achieved a handful of times on Instagram

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Sep, 2016 - Sep, 20182 years

  CircleCI allows teams to rapidly build quality projects, at scale. A SAAS CI tool which has both a Cloud and Enterprise offering.

  • Team lead for adding Google logins to the platform. Team thrived by using techniques like swarming and pair programming.

  • Integrated Hashicorp's https://www.vaultproject.io/ into the platform to build out the shared secrets feature.

  • Leveraged third party monitoring tools such as https://www.datadoghq.com/ and https://rollbar.com/ for monitoring/observability/discoverability programming practices.

  • Established the 'micro-service-chassis' for the company. This lead into a full development team taking over the work later.

  • Improved reliability of the GraphQL API and Frontend deployments by providing developers with patterns and data around what versions were being run in client's browsers.

• Software Engineer, 

  Oct, 2015 - Sep, 201611 months

  Stitch is a cloud-first ETL tool which is a developer-focused platform for rapidly moving data.

  • Lead development of the database replication infrastructure for Stitch Data. Team was lead in a scrum/kanban fashion.

  • Built a resilient job runner which could sync data from SQL and NoSQL data stores.

  • Built a distributed scheduling system, and a system where OOM JVM exceptions would not cause the coordinating system to die.

  • For the distributed scheduling system triggered events (containing many duplicates due to non coordinating nature of instances fired up) were placed on a queue (which had at least one guarantees) and de-duped by a fleet of worker coordinator boxes, which were non coordinating aside from a shared MySQL store. Performance was reached through utilizing unique-key constraints, rather than a lock acquire pattern. This effectively circumvented using a database as a queue or lock and instead turned the fundamental data structure into more of a CRDT.

• Software Engineer, 

  May, 2014 - Oct, 20151 year 4 months

  RJMetrics is a data analytics firm that exists to help clients make data-driven decisions. Their products CloudBI, and Pipeline focus on two distinct personas: the business user, and the data engineer respectively. CloudBI boasts a full stack BI tool starting with client data, and ending with transformed metrics and charts in a user friendly UI. Pipeline is strictly a workhorse, moving data as fast as possible from many disparate sources into Amazon's Redshift MPP Datastore.

  • Lead the database replication team when developing Pipeline.

  • Developed an async Java Process runner in Clojure which allows JVMs which are not the master to crash without effecting the root application.

  • Won the 2016 Winter Hackathon.

  • Lead a 'Theories in Lunchtime' group which focused on reading the latest papers and discussing them...over lunch.

  • Gave a talk at Mongo World Headquarters about Conflict Resilient Data-types and their application to data-etl tools in the context of MongoDB

  • Helped develop an internal tool for migrating clients' custom php scripts to a java scripting language.

  • Process improvements to how internal support is carried out by the dev team.

  • Migrated the team from the Grunt build tool to Gulp, with no reported prod level bugs.

• Software Consultant, 

  May, 2013 - May, 20141 year

  SDS provides specialized technology solutions to clients in many different fields.

  • Optimized long running SQL processes and saw improvements at many orders of magnitude.

• Research Assistant and Productions Technician, 

  Jan, 2011 - Aug, 20121 year 7 months

  An innovative tribology lab with creative solutions to everything related to friction. Coatings that perform well in both atmosphere and space applications, PVD applications.

  • Designed a cooling system for a cathodic arc deposition chamber.

  • Built a vacuum chamber from scratch a number of times.

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