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Chili PiperStaff Data Engineer
Apr. 2025Brooklyn, New York, United Statessame same, but better
Chili PiperSenior Data Engineer
Feb. 2024 - Apr. 2025Brooklyn, New York, United StatesTools:
GCP (Cloud Functions + Pub/Sub), Terraform, Apache Beam (Python) Kubernetes, Postgres, Debezium, Kafka, Fivetran, Snowplow, Snowflake, dbt, Sigma, Hightouch, Github Actions
Peach PaymentsData Engineering Manager
May. 2022 - Oct. 2023RemoteHybrid - Engineer / Management Role Responsibilities:
Developer Experience Improvement
Hiring and Interviewing
Improving Engineering Management Processes
Aggregating Team Feedback and Finding Solutions
1-on-1's with Team Members (Mentoring, Coaching, Guidance)
Performance Management and Values Alignment
Peach PaymentsSenior Data Engineer
Nov. 2021 - Jan. 2024RemoteImplementing solutions on AWS including: Infrastructure Deployments using Serverless and Cloudformation
Enabling Deployments, CI / CD and Automation using scripting with Gitlab CI / CD - Runners & AWS Services
Managing Automated Database Versioning and Schema Control
Securing and Hardening Existing Cloud Infrastructure
Implementing Best Practices in DBT and ETL processes
Advising on Cloud Warehousing and Data Architecture from Ideation to Implementation
Operating, Deploying and Maintaining Application Layer for Event-Based Streaming (API Gateway, AWS Lambda, S3, AWS Managed Services for Kafka)
Implementing DevOps standards and processes.
Troubleshooting and Bug-Fixing
Cost Containment Initiatives Utilizing AWS Best Practices including Migrations and Sunsetting
Migrating Legacy Cloudformation Stacks to Terraform
Aurora DB Migration
VPN Implementation
Deployed Example MLOps System in AWS w/ Trained Model - Sagemaker, MLFlow, FastAI Tech: AWS, Terraform/Terragrunt, Cloudformation, Serverless, Lambda (Python) Kafka, Liquibase, Gitlab CI/CD, Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus/Grafana, Postgres, Snowflake, dbt
Data CombineLead Data Consultant
Sep. 2021Cape Town, South AfricaConsulting / Short-Term Contract / Project-Based Work Modern Data / Analytics Engineering Postgres => Fivetran => Snowflake => DBT => Tableau / Census
Fuse UniversalSenior Cloud Data Engineer
Jun. 2020 - Sep. 2021London, England, United KingdomLead/First Data Engineer
Working in Unison w/ Backend & DevOps engineering Teams & Reporting to Chief Technologist Creating a high-level data strategy and roadmap for the company.
Recommending and implementing technical solution architecture changes.
Identifying & solving areas of interim improvement for existing ETL Pipelines.
Building out new pipelines and contributing to new analytics features, extending existing logical and physical data model.
Technical support and maintenance of existing pipelines.
POC's of new pipeline architecture options ( Streamsets, Airflow, DBT) Technologies: MySQL, PostGreSQL, AWS Services, HP Vertica, 3rd Party Visualization Tools
Datonomy SolutionsCloud Data Engineer
Nov. 2019 - Jun. 2020Cape Town Area, South AfricaCloud-First Data Engineering Building out Raw Data Lake capabilities for the largest listed group of retailers in Africa (Pepkor) across all of their verticals and source systems, enabling self-service report building and capabilities on
the Google Cloud Platform. Delivered a project which allowed all stores in the group to view stock-on-hand in store and in nearby stores, via a dashboard.
Contributed to a project which allowed for enhanced supply-chain & working capital visibility from in-slight stock recons. Technologies Used: Python Scripting, Oracle 11g DB, mySQL, Streamsets, Airflow,
Google BigQuery, Google Data Studio (Testing)
Kurtosys SystemsData Engineer
Sep. 2017 - Nov. 2019Cape TownData Engineering & Automation to prepare and present fund data for Global Asset Managers. Operating in an agile project capacity as well as day-to-day ownership of specific client processes and technical communication. ETL and Data Integration Process Design, Development, Improvement & Support/Monitoring.
Issue/Bug Resolution on Existing Client Reporting and Fund Data Platforms.
Migrating ETL loaders from Talend Data Platform to Microsoft SSIS & Node.JS solutions.
Client report template changes and updates as per compliance and regulation changes. (ie MiFiD II)
Implementation of new products. Technologies Used: SQL, SSIS, C#(scripting), Talend Data Platform, Node.JS (TypeScript & ES6), sFTP utilities and auxilliary components. Tools Used: Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence), SourceTree/BitBucket & Git (repo)
MaitlandSTP Integration Developer
Apr. 2016 - Aug. 2017Cape TownData Automation & Integration between disparate financial platforms (Order Management, Accounting, Reconciliations, Reporting). This includes bulk ETL, as well as real-time transactional process analysis, design and development. Integrating and automating data flows within the organization and with clients and external third parties.
Achieved primarily through following a SOA approach, utilizing message-oriented middleware, MQ and Database integration technologies.
Experience includes trade lifecycle management knowledge, SWIFT (ISO15022/ISO20022) financial messaging and network knowledge.
Responsibilities also include the support and monitoring of deployed applications, resolving bugs and escalations. Experience with SSMS, Information Builders iWay Integration Suite, SSRS, Oracle DB and relevant transport protocols.
MaitlandSpecialist: Front Office - Business Process Management
Oct. 2015 - Mar. 2016Cape Town Area, South AfricaWorking primarily with Financial Information Systems and Databases, in an overarching capacity, bridging operations and IT as the resident Front Office Technical BA. Responsibilities Include: Project Management
Business Process Modelling
Requirements Gathering & Documentation
Process Management Optimization & Re-engineering
Diagnostics, Troubleshooting & Exception Handling
UAT (System & Process Testing) Internal process educationals & training
Frost & SullivanResearch Associate - ICT (Africa)
Feb. 2015 - Jun. 2015Frost & SullivanResponsibilities Include: Conducting thorough secondary and primary research and analysis
Developing and maintaining relationships with key industry participants
Assisting in the development of client-specific deliverables and generating market insights.
Continuously tracking trends and developments in the ICT industry Key Research Areas Covered: Telecommunications Infrastructure and Expansion National eGovernment Services Best Practices.
Information Security and Compliance.
The Managed Services Landscape in South Africa
University of Cape TownResearch Assistant
Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2013Cape Town Area, South AfricaI was employed in an insightful Master’s research study which assessed the efficiency of applying the Khan Academy video tuition framework in underprivileged schools around Cape Town. I was able to combine my interest in both the psychology of learning, MOOCs and economics and participate in an applied research programme. Responsibilities included collecting and recording data, moderating the data and helping out with administrative work.
Vefa Internet CafeManager
Jan. 2008 - Jul. 2008Cape Town Area, South AfricaI was employed on a part-time and weekend basis at VEFA Internet Café. This comprised of managerial duty at the internet café and general hardware sales. I had the opportunity to put my love for technology and computers to good use and I was given managerial duties which included having to ensure all business operations were running smoothly. Unfortunately, the business closed its doors soon after I had left.
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