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Yuriy Margulis
Verified Expert in Engineering
Big Data Developer
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal member since August 8, 2016
Bio
Yuriy is a data specialist with over 15 years of experience in data warehousing, data engineering, feature engineering, big data, ETL/ELT, and business intelligence. As a big data architect and engineer, Yuriy specializes in AWS and Azure frameworks, Spark/PySpark, Databricks, Hive, Redshift, Snowflake, relational databases, tools like Fivetran, Airflow, DBT, Presto/Athena, and data DevOps frameworks and toolsets.
Portfolio
Databricks
Databricks
Paramount
Spark, PySpark, Scala, Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, SQL...
Crowd Consulting
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Warehouse Design, Data Warehousing...
Experience
- ETL - 20 years
- Data Warehousing - 20 years
- Technology Strategy & Architecture - 15 years
- Spark - 7 years
- Databricks - 5 years
- Python - 4 years
- Fivetran - 4 years
- Snowflake - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Snowflake, Spark
The most amazing...
...project I've grown was a PriceGrabber data warehouse from five to 17 subjects through many platform changes. I wrote multiple lines of SQL and other scripting c
Work Experience
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect
2023 - PRESENT
Databricks
- Joined the Field Engineering, Communications, and Media and Entertainment verticals.
- Provided technical support for field engineers, architects, and customers.
- Performed data warehousing, data engineering, migrations, and integrations.
Technologies: Databricks
Senior Manager Data Engineering
2020 - 2023
Paramount
- Built a revenue data mart and added a server-side subject area to the data lake.
- Managed a team and oversaw ETL monitoring, optimization, and performance tuning.
- Represented the data engineering team in the company's architecture guild activities.
Technologies: Spark, PySpark, Scala, Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, SQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Athena, Data Build Tool (dbt), Google BigQuery
Co-founder | CEO
2016 - 2023
Crowd Consulting
- Worked on full data warehouse implementations for multiple clients.
- Provided big data training and support for consulting partners.
- Engineered and built an ETL pipeline for an AWS S3 data warehouse using AWS Kinesis, Lambda, Hive, Presto, and Spark. The pipeline was written in Python.
- Delivered data warehouses, data lakes, data lakehouses, feature marts, BI systems, migrations, and integrations.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Warehouse Design, Data Warehousing, Amazon Athena, Tableau, Luigi, Scala, Python, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, AWS Lambda, Apache Hive, Databricks, Spark, Hadoop, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Data Engineering Architect
2020 - 2020
CVS Health (via Toptal)
- ETL and feature engineering - personalization engine.
Technologies: RAPIDS, Scala, Python, Spark, Databricks, Azure
Data Engineer
2020 - 2020
Maisonette
- Built a data platform and data lake using Fivetran, dbt, and Databricks.
- Participated in the development of a BI platform in Looker.
- Performed CI/CD deployment and operational support.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Fivetran, Looker, Python, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, PostgreSQL
Data Engineer
2019 - 2020
Teespring (via Toptal)
- Migrated a data warehouse ETL pipeline from Airflow/Redshift to Fivetran, Databricks, and Snowflake.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), APIs, Redshift, Apache Airflow, Python, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Fivetran
Data Engineer
2018 - 2019
BCG GAMMA (via Toptal, Three Contracts)
- Provided engineering support for data scientists.
- Designed and built a featured engineering data mart and customer 360° data lake in AWS S3.
- Designed and developed a dynamic S3-to-S3 ETL system in Spark and Hive.
- Completed various DevOps tasks included an Airflow installation, development of Ansible playbooks, and history backloads.
- Worked on a feature engineering project which involved Hortonworks, Spark, Python, Hive, and Airflow.
- Built a one-on-one marketing feature engineering pipeline in PySpark on Microsoft Azure and Databricks (used ADF, ADL, Databricks Delta Lake, and ADW as a source).
Technologies: Ansible, Boto 3, Apache Airflow, PostgreSQL, Relational Database Services (RDS), AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Presto, Apache Hive, Spark, Python
Vice President, Data
2017 - 2018
Enervee
- Managed the data engineering, BI reporting, and data science teams.
- Worked as a hands-on data engineer.
- Built a data lake on AWS.
- Developed a reporting system with Redash/Presto.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redash, Apache Airflow, Python, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Apache Hive, Presto, Spark, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Hadoop
Big Data Architect
2016 - 2017
ITG
- Worked in a full-time position, as a data architect for a transaction cost analysis system.
- Installed a four-node Apache Hadoop/Spark cluster on ITG's private cloud.
- Conducted platform POC embedding Apache Spark technology into ITG's data platform.
- Supported the development of a platform POC for Kx Kdb+; also converted Sybase IQ queries to Kdb+ Q language.
Technologies: Q, Kdb+, Informatica, Sybase, Python, Spark, Apache Hive, Hadoop
Data Engineer
2016 - 2017
American Taekwondo Association (via Toptal)
- Converted data from a legacy Oracle database to a newly designed SQL Server database.
- Wrote SQL scripts, stored procedures, kettle transformations.
- Administered two databases.
- Performed extensive data cleansing and validation.
Technologies: Pentaho, Oracle, SQL
Director, Data Warehouse
2015 - 2016
Connexity
- Managed two data warehouses and BI teams for both PriceGrabber and Shopzilla. Connexity is also known as PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, and BizRate.
- Handled operational support for the PriceGrabber data warehouse. Recovered data warehouse after the data center migration.
- Merged one data warehouse into another and retired one of them. Hands-on designed business and data integration architecture; developed data validation scripts and ETL integration code. Managed the transfer of a BI reporting system from Cognos to OBIEE and Tableau.
- Defined the technology platform change strategy for the combined data warehouse.
- Created SQL: PL SQL stored procedures, packages, and anonymous scripts for ETL and data validation.
- Completed an Amazon Redshift project.
- Worked on and completed a Cloudera Impala project.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Python, Perl, Tableau, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE), Cognos 10, Impala, Hadoop, Redshift, PL/SQL, Oracle
Director, Data Warehouse
2008 - 2015
PriceGrabber
- Oversaw the company's data services, defined the overall and technical strategy for data warehousing, business intelligence, and big data environments.
- Hired and managed a mixed on-shore (US)/off-shore (India) engineering team.
- Replatformed a data warehouse to Oracle Exadata X3/Oracle ZFS combination, added big data and machine learning components to the data warehousing environment.
- Supported 24x7x365 operations in compliance with the company's top-level production SLA.
- Wrote thousands of lines of PL/SQL, PL/pgSQL, MySQL, and HiveQL code.
- Wrote ETL scripting in Perl, Python, and JavaScript internally in Kettle.
- Worked with big data on multiple types of projects (Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and Mahaut).
- Developed a tool-based ETL for a Pentaho (Kettle) CE ETL redesign project.
- Worked on machine learning for various types of projects (Python, SciPy, NumPy, and Pandas).
Technologies: Pentaho, Linux, Python, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Hive, Apache Pig, Hadoop, Oracle
Director, Data Warehouse
2007 - 2008
Edmunds
- Managed a data warehouse team and project pipeline; supported operations.
- Created PL/SQL stored procedures, packages, and anonymous scripts for ETL and data validation.
- Worked on a tool-based ETL for multiple Informatica projects.
Technologies: Linux, Perl, Informatica, Oracle
Manager, Data Warehouse
2003 - 2007
Universal Music Group
- Managed, developed, and operated a CRM data warehouse.
- Wrote PL/SQL, MySQL, and Perl code.
- Administered to a Cognos reporting system.
- Worked on C# for multiple supporting projects for the OLAP reporting system.
- Designed and developed a MSAS OLAP cube system.
Technologies: Linux, Perl, C#, Cognos 10, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
Director, Decision Support and Financial Systems
2001 - 2003
MediaLive International
- Managed a data warehouse, BI, and CRM systems.
- Assumed responsibilities over an Oracle EBS application team.
- Developed the PL/SQL coding for a data warehouse ETL and Oracle Application integration.
- Worked with SQL server for multiple Transact-SQL and analysis service projects.
- Worked on a tool-based ETL for multiple epiphany EPI*Channel projects.
Technologies: Unix, VB, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle EBS, Oracle
Senior Principal Consultant (Professional Services, Essbase Practice)
1999 - 2001
Hyperion (Currently: Oracle)
- Led a practice for a consulting company covering for multiple clients.
- Developed Essbase satellite systems: relational data warehouses and data marts, reporting systems, ETL systems, CRM's, EPP's, ETL in and out of Essbase and with Essbase itself.
- Worked on multiple PL/SQL projects, by providing full support of the team's Oracle project pipeline.
- Helped to develop SQL servers for multiple Transact-SQL and analysis services projects.
- Developed a tool-based ETL for an Informatica project.
- Worked with Hyperion, Essbase, Enterprise, Pillar, planning, financial analyzers, and VBA projects.
Technologies: Essbase, Hyperion, Informatica, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
Education
2016 - 2016
Certificate of Completion in Data Science and Engineering with Apache Spark
UC BerkeleyX (Online Courses from Berkeley) - Berkeley, California (USA)
2012 - 2012
Certificate of Completion in Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop
Cloudera University - New York, New York (USA)
1995 - 1995
Certificate of Completion in Oracle Database Administration
UCI Extension - Irvine, California (USA)
1975 - 1980
Diploma (Master of Science Equivalent) Degree in Applied Mathematics
Odessa I.I. Mechnikov University - Odessa, Ukraine
Certifications
JUNE 2023 - PRESENT
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
Databricks
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Snowpark, Luigi, RAPIDS, PySpark
Tools
Apache Airflow, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon Athena, Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle), AWS Glue, Impala, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE), Tableau, Hyperion, Redash, Boto 3, Ansible, Looker, Informatica PowerCenter
Languages
Python, SQL, PL/pgSQL, Snowflake, C#, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VB, Scala, Q, Perl
Frameworks
Apache Spark, Spark, Presto, Hadoop
Paradigms
ETL, Business Intelligence (BI), Management, Database Design, Testing
Platforms
Oracle, Databricks, Azure, Linux, Apache Pig, Pentaho, Unix, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
PostgreSQL, Apache Hive, Databases, Oracle PL/SQL, Redshift, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PL/SQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Sybase, Kdb+, Amazon Aurora, Cassandra, Essbase, Data Lakes, Data Pipelines
Other
Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, Leadership, Team Mentoring, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Big Data, Software Development, Fivetran, Data Warehouse Design, Informatica, Oracle EBS, Relational Database Services (RDS), APIs, perlpod, Unix Shell Scripting, MSAS, Cognos 10, Data Build Tool (dbt), Google BigQuery, Security, Deployment, Data Modeling
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