Work Experience
L3 Senior Engineer • Atlas AI PBC
— Automated the creation of arbitrary combinations of country boundaries into regions (at any admin level, maintaining topology)
— Designed editorial flow and built a spatial data QA pipeline for both raster and vector data
— Ad-hoc dataset processing scripts; customer data extracts and deliverables
February 2021 - Present
Senior Backend Engineer (Consultant) • Atlas AI PBC
- Review and build data pipeline architecture with different types of spatial and non-spatial data (BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Python)
November 2020 - February 2021
Data Engineer (Contractor) • BERA Brand Management
- Serverless development to track 3rd party SLA (puppeteer.js)
- Azure to GCP migration, Pulumi / Terraform, dbt, BigQuery, DOMO, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker
November 2019 - December 2020
Data Manager, Geospatial (Contractor) • Pomelo Travel
- User data architect: led planning for how to organize and secure user data (PostGIS, PostgreSQL schema design)
- Created GeoJSON datasets and MBTiles tilesets for interactive web and mobile apps
- Frontend development (Mapbox, CSS, ES6 JavaScript, Parcel, TypeScript)
January 2020 - July 2020
Lead System Architect • UNLI
- Led product development for a web-based travel planning app
- Developed GIS data pipelines (PyQGIS, Python, R, SQL, API, NodeJS, React, Git)
- Learned how to define customer expectations as agile product requirements
November 2018 - November 2019
Systems Consultant • Brigham Young University - Hawaii
- Trained 7 employees in a Tier 2 technical IT support environment
- Led the migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10
- Resolved hardware and software issues in 300+ Windows and Mac OS computers
September 2017 - April 2019
Manager, Volunteer Resources • Non-Profit Organization
- Renegotiated publishing service contract and reduced annual cost by 43%
- On-boarding, training, and flight approval for 300 volunteers (Mail merge, AHK)
- Gained fluency in reading / writing Tagalog and other Filipino dialects
August 2014 - July 2016
Linux Systems Engineer / Business Analyst • Thunder Bay Trading Company, LLC
- Determined best-value IT solutions to improve business performance
- Implemented policies for GDPR and PCI-DSS compliance
- Automated repetitive business tasks with scripting languages like Bash and R
July 2012 - August 2014
IT Support Tier 1 Helpdesk • Snow College Karen Huntsman Library
- Published the first online digital collection of the library with 87 years of records
- Assisted in managing 100+ workstations with Active Directory for 4,000+ users
August 2013 - May 2014
Education
2017 - 2019
Brigham Young University -- Hawaii
Cultural Anthropology
Transferred credits from Snow College (2013-14) and BYU Provo (2016-17)
