Kevin Gould
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Engineer and Developer
Kevin is an experienced IT, analytics, and data engineering professional whose programmatic skill set includes zero-to-one data products, ETL, analysis, and infrastructure. He is a data analysis advocate, passionate about helping teams use data effectively and switch their focus to less repetitive tasks. Kevin has a track record of creating value-added services for organizations wishing to capitalize on their data, identify and ingest new information, and progress on their missions.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
IntelliJ IDEA, Python, MacOS, Linux, PostgreSQL
The most amazing...
...(helpful) thing I've built is a Flask app that allows business users to email themselves and their customers Excel reports. Sometimes, it's the little things.
Work Experience
Senior Data Platform Engineer
MURAL
- Increased data processing pipelines' reliability, fault tolerance, and transparency by migrating an entire suite of ETL processes from Tray, a low-code tool, to Apache Airflow, an open-source orchestration platform.
- Wrote a suite of ETL processes, connecting GTM systems and other third-party tools to MURAL's production application databases like MongoDB, Redshift, and Amazon S3. This improvement gave the data ecosystem a source of truth.
- Built a highly performant SQL system, transforming raw data layers into optimized and fully joined analytical layers that improved dashboards and reporting tasks.
Financial Business Intelligence Engineer
Self-employed
- Analyzed, built, and transferred core financial reporting modules for a client's cloud data lake, writing highly performant and reliable pipelines using Python, SQL, dbt, Terraform, and other tools.
- Documented and advised on best practices for analytical data layers.
- Improved, by a factor of ten, the efficiency of the monthly close process for a financial planning and analysis team, reducing the overall time spent and increasing the reliability and accuracy of inventory, profitability, and accounting metrics.
Business and Strategy Analyst
FourKites
- Contributed to the self-service reporting application, enabling internal teams to run pre-built queries and generate results in highly professional Excel reports.
- Maintained and improved ETL and reverse ETL processes between GTM and CRM systems and the productive relational database.
- Enriched Salesforce with application data, improving the operations team's interaction with customer data insights.
- Designed and led the weekly "Learn SQL" class for anyone in the company to join. This course allowed numerous employees to increase their contributions and excel in their tech careers.
Experience
Data Visualization Application
Skills
Languages
Python, SQL, Python 3
Tools
Apache Airflow, IntelliJ IDEA
Storage
PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Other
Analytics, Data Engineering, Dashboards, Data Build Tool (dbt), Performance Optimization, Economics, Statistics, Probability Theory, Financial Data, Clustering, Data Visualization, Computer Engineering
Libraries/APIs
PySpark, Pandas
Paradigms
ETL, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Science
Platforms
Databricks, MacOS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce
Frameworks
Apache Spark, Spark
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
The College of Wooster - Wooster, OH, USA
Certifications
Executive Certificate in Computer Engineering Fundamentals
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Data Engineer Associate
Databricks
Docker and Kubernetes
Udemy
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
IBM Data Science Specialization
Coursera
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