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Ian Roy

Verified Expert in Engineering

Data Engineer and Developer

Location

Cleveland, OH, United States

Toptal Member Since

December 21, 2020

Ian is a data engineer with six years of experience providing scalable and verifiable solutions. His primary focus has been on large scale data collection operations across a few different industries. Ian also has abundant experience working in the Docker ecosystem, so he excels at smoothly and efficiently integrating his code into an existing DevOps system.

Data Engineering Python Web Scraping Git Data Analysis Big Data Linux SQL Docker NoSQL Data Pipelines Machine Learning D3.js

Portfolio

TPA Stream

Web Scraping, Data, Python

Trilogy Education Services

Machine Learning, APIs, D3.js, JavaScript, NoSQL, SQL, Python

Dakota Software

JavaScript, SQL, Python

Experience

Data - 6 years Python - 6 years APIs - 6 years Data Engineering - 6 years Web Scraping - 6 years Data Analysis - 5 years Big Data - 4 years Data Pipelines - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Python, Linux

The most amazing...

...thing I've created would be my solutions to for dealing with many different anti-bot networks when scraping data.

Work Experience

Data Engineer

2019 - PRESENT

TPA Stream

Created tools that simplified the process of writing web scrapers.
Containerized the web scrapers so that they could be part of the DevOps pipeline.
Maintained the existing data pipelines by troubleshooting bugs as they occured.

Technologies: Web Scraping, Data, Python

Data Science Instructor

2018 - PRESENT

Trilogy Education Services

Instructed students who were learning basic programming and data analysis.
Troubleshot student configuration issues in a variety of different hardware and software enviorments.
Provided 1-on-1 tutoring to students in need of further instruction.

Technologies: Machine Learning, APIs, D3.js, JavaScript, NoSQL, SQL, Python

Software Engineer

2015 - 2018

Dakota Software

Maintained web scrapers for government regulations.
Created Selenium-based automation tools for web app testing.
Deployed tested code to the production environment.

Technologies: JavaScript, SQL, Python

Experience

Stock Data Pipeline

https://github.com/Ian-Roy/data_pipeline_stock

I built a distributed Python desk application that gathers and analyzes data on current stock trends. The data is stored in a document database and is designed to scale as needed for many different stock interests.

Skills

Languages

Python, SQL, JavaScript

Other

Data Engineering, Web Scraping, Big Data, Data Analysis, Data, APIs, Machine Learning

Tools

Git, DataViz

Libraries/APIs

D3.js

Paradigms

Distributed Computing

Platforms

Docker, Linux

Storage

Data Pipelines, NoSQL

Education

2012 - 2017

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics

Cleveland State University - Cleveland, OH, United States

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