if you need to hire a consultant on doing data stuff (platforms, database usage, analytics, How To Get Started, service integrations, governance), feel free to reach out
i cannot do proper contract work due to my health (read: programming) but i sure can teach people how to do my job or help you design your stuff if you have enough technical expertise to learn things in python without me having to explain what a for loop or an import statement is
you can reach me at ames {at} koboldinteractive {dot} com
while i can do a lot all over the place, here are some highlights of my career.
it's a lot, but there's still a lot more. ive done a lot of cool shit in my career.
but yea i never made it past senior software engineer bc of office politics. i can do a lot of cool shit and can help you do a lot so consider hiring me if you need to consult me on data platforms and analytics.
- built dst accommodations to reconcile drift between 3 different time zones for finance systems
- as a junior engineer i managed a 30+ node hadoop cluster on my own after team quit. (i ended up having to pull a 120 hour work week to fix this once so even if im proud of how good a job i did i will never do this again.)
- integrated multiple services to coordinate sales and licensing - mavenlink, salesforce, netsuite, and internal systems - and was the sme for this until my company spun up a team to drive this stuff and i educated them how to manage it & helped them design the replacement system
- owned the data migration for the new system after they failed through multiple contractors, which ended up clarifying thousands of licensing issues & helped them solve a lot of logistical problems they hadnt even realiEd were there. the analyst i worked with found 40m+ in unbilled invoices thanks to my work
- drove data governance efforts for my company despite no leadership buyin - even without much support (everyone else gave up) - and my standards and strategies ended up completely reshaping how we designed pipelines at the company to the point that all our latest efforts have been revolving around my work
- was the creator and main contributor to a program teaching data engineering skills to non-engineers (at least 30 people, 6 of whom went on to engineering roles!)
- by establishing usage standards, i helped my last team scale a traditional relational database to absurd heights due to lack of resources to pivot to a better tech - to the point that other teams whose applications could better use the technology adopted the database - and i was involved in helping establish standards and adoption across the company when this effort first started