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👨‍💻 About Me

Data Engineer @ Propper International | Product Builder by Night 🔧 Day Job: Building 100+ data pipelines for TB-scale retail ops 🚀 Side Hustle: Shipping SaaS with Cursor + Claude AI 📍 Location: St. Louis, Missouri 🇺🇸 🎓 Education: MS Computer Science Impact: 40% reduced data latency • 50% automation increase • 20% cost reduction "The best engineers don't just move data — they build things that matter."

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🚀 What I'm Building

PMHNP Hiring Niche job board for Psychiatric NPs Metric Value 📊 Jobs 5,600+ 🏢 Companies 1,349 🎯 Dedup Rate 85%

Gym Tracker AI-powered workout tracking app Feature Detail 🏋️ Exercises 423 🤖 AI Coach GPT-4 ❤️ Health Apple

FreelancerShield Business OS for freelancers Feature 👥 Clients 📄 Contracts 💰 Invoicing

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💼 Professional Experience

Data Engineer • May 2023 - Present • St. Louis, MO

Building data infrastructure for a multi-terabyte retail operation

Metric	Impact
📊 ETL Pipelines Built	100+ using Airflow & AWS Glue
⚡ Real-time Streaming	Kafka + Spark Structured Streaming
📈 Data Latency Reduction	40% improvement
🤖 Process Automation	15+ manual processes automated
💰 Cost Optimization	20% reduction via Parquet/ORC

📍 Previous: Globus Medical (2021-2022)

Data Engineer • Healthcare data engineering with HIPAA/GDPR compliance

• Built 50+ batch and streaming pipelines for clinical/financial data
• Ingested 1TB+ healthcare data daily via Spark
• 25% reduction in claims processing SLA
• Zero compliance violations during HIPAA audits
• Implemented bronze-silver-gold lakehouse methodology

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Python	AWS	Azure	Spark	Snowflake	Kafka	Databricks	Docker
TypeScript	React	Next.js	Tailwind	Supabase	Prisma	GitHub	Vercel

📊 Full Skills Breakdown

Data Engineering (Day Job)

Languages       → Python (Pandas, NumPy, PySpark) • SQL • Bash
Big Data        → Apache Spark • Hadoop • Hive • Kafka • Delta Lake
Warehousing     → Snowflake • Redshift • PostgreSQL • BigQuery • MongoDB  
ETL             → Airflow • dbt • AWS Glue • Azure Data Factory • NiFi • Databricks
Cloud           → AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift) • Azure (ADF, Synapse) • GCP
DevOps          → Terraform • Jenkins • GitHub Actions • Docker • Kubernetes
BI              → Power BI • Tableau • Looker

Product Building (Side Projects)

Frontend        → Next.js • React Native • TypeScript • Tailwind CSS
Backend         → Supabase • Prisma • PostgreSQL • Stripe
AI Tools        → Cursor • Claude • OpenAI API
Deployment      → Vercel • Expo • App Store • Play Store

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📊 GitHub Stats

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📊 Featured Data Projects

🏎️ Formula 1 Racing Analytics Enterprise Lakehouse on Azure for F1 telemetry Tech: Azure Databricks • Delta Lake • PySpark • ADF 📊 Raw → Bronze → Silver → Gold architecture 🔐 Unity Catalog governance ⚡ Real-time race KPIs 📈 Power BI dashboards

🚕 NYC Taxi Analytics Big data pipeline on Azure Synapse Tech: Azure Synapse • PySpark • Cosmos DB • Power BI 🗺️ Geospatial visualization 🔄 Batch and streaming pipelines 🔗 HTAP with Cosmos DB 📊 100M+ trip records processed

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🎓 Education & Certifications

🎓	M.S. Computer Science	Southeast Missouri State University	GPA: 3.7
🎓	B.Tech Computer Science	Karunya Institute of Technology
📜	Neural Networks & Deep Learning	DeepLearning.AI
📜	Python for Everybody	University of Michigan

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🌱 Currently

+ 🚢 Shipping Gym Tracker to iOS and Android
+ 🔨 Building FreelancerShield features  
+ 📝 Documenting journey on Twitter #buildinpublic
+ 💼 Open to Data Engineering roles with product impact

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📬 Let's Connect

I'm always happy to chat about Data Engineering, AI-assisted development, or the indie hacker journey.

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"The best engineers don't just move data — they build things that matter."