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SootheDirector of Engineering
Mar. 2024Los Angeles, California, United StatesLed end-to-end SDLC for enterprise applications, reducing deployment errors by 40% and improving customer satisfaction by 25%.
Optimized back-end codebase by 20% through refactoring, enhancing system scalability by 20%.
Reduced hosting costs by 50% via Heroku resource optimization (e.g., Dyno management/ Addon optimisation).
Upgraded Ruby (2 to 3), Rails (4 to 7), and MySQL versions, ensuring compliance with security standards.
Migrated ETL workflows to Airflow, Airbyte & dbt stack (self hosted) to reduce overall costs associated with the pipelines
SootheEngineering Manager
Jul. 2023 - Mar. 2024Los Angeles, California, United StatesLeading the Backend and Data Teams. working with different teams (both direct and outsourced contractors in differing timezones) to deliver products and reporting to different areas of the business. Juggling multiple apps and platforms to ensure timely delivery of key features in the company. Being the go to person for anything related to data and engineering shaping all the new features into scalable products to ensure the sucess of business goals while also keeping to budgets. Accomplishments include a 50% reduction of hosting costs aswell as a ~40% improvment in overall API speed by highlighting bugs and pinch points in some of the API's processes and improving the code. I also lead the team in majot infrastruture upgrades such as Ruby/Rails version upgrades and database upgrades to be the most up to dates as possible on our tech stack
SootheEngineering Lead - BI and Backend
Nov. 2021 - Jul. 2023Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaIn adddition to my previous roleI started to take on a lead role with the backend team to help facilitate the progress of company goals. This included database design and feature development processes while ago using my knowlegde in data an analytics to ensure that all new features included all the data points needed to effectively help report on the results of these new features. Hired a data team to transition some of the work load from myself to a wider team to help mainatin the data and analytics stack that I was previously reponsible. This included coaching of these new analysts and engineers
SootheLead Analytics Engineer
Sep. 2019 - Nov. 2021Greater Los Angeles AreaResponsible for all Business Intelligence for the business using Sisense, Python, Excel to develop processes for reporting for all areas of the Business from finance to customer service and Marketing. Consulting business stakeholders to unify KPIs across the business as well as suggesting changes to current processes and KPIs to fit with current trends. Created data warehouse and data pipelines to house data from various platforms including Mysql, marketing platforms, Salesforce, Stripe along with various others. In this I would use SQL transformations to create datasets to be reused to keep queries to a minimum and optimized. All the above removed alot of the manual reporting efforts previously done by this role that enabled me to look into more future project based work along with furthering my knowledge in data & software engineering skills
Dollar Shave ClubBusiness Intelligence Developer
Oct. 2018 - Sep. 2019Marina Del Rey, CaliforniaWorking with Business users/Analysts to gather epic/user story requirements. Working closely with Data Architects to design and develop data infrastructure to support business growth. Using Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 and Pyspark applications to develop near real time ETL to provide to business users POCs for new applications/data platforms to support business growth. BI solutions include Looker (with LookML development), Tableau and Adobe Analytics.
Motorcar Parts of AmericaData Analyst
Apr. 2018 - Oct. 2018Torrance, CaliforniaUsed Alteryx with Tableau to manipulate data into reporting for internal colleagues aswell as customers. Main source of data is mainly through csv files given from the customer where we upload to a Microsoft SQL server (for which I am also the DBA for). From there I use Alteryx to pull and manipulate data into reports for various parties, along with powershell to automate repeatative tasks I was responsible for the set up of the SQL server from scratch and the rebuild of all current processes during the first 3 months.
AsdaData Analyst
Nov. 2016 - Sep. 2017Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomAnalysing and processing data for the merchandising function. Using Alteryx and Tableau with Teradata and Oracle SQL to produce MI/BI for the function of the business. This BI was for use by ~100 users and was completely built and manage by me alone.
AsdaSupply Chain Analyst/Data Analyst
Jul. 2011 - Nov. 2016Leeds, United KingdomManaging availability and orders of a large range of products across all stores in Britain and Northern Ireland. From Feb 2013 working on project team introduce a new replenishment system as well as being the central reporting team for the supply chain function Leveraging Tableau and Alteryx to create BI for end users (~250-300 users). Our team was tasked with migrating current reporting into the new system using a different/extra data source. Also limited exposure to PowerBI as a POC
Hallmark AviationPassenger Service Agent
Jul. 2009 - Jul. 2010Los AngelesVarious aviation ground services for Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia as part of the studies for the degree that I obtained in 2011.
HOYER GroupTransport Controller
Mar. 2007 - Jun. 2009
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