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Data Engineering

Data Engineering is the design and construction of systems for collecting, storing, and processing data.

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  • Published Apr 26, 2026
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What It Is

Data Engineering is the design and construction of systems for collecting, storing, and processing data. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.

Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_engineering

Preview for MongoDB
▪MongoDB

MongoDB

MongoDB is a noSQL database for flexible document storage.

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Preview for MySQL
▪MySQL

MySQL

MySQL is a relational database management system.

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◇Osmose

Osmose

A utility-infrastructure company where geospatial risk modeling and data engineering were applied to physical-world asset prioritization.

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▪PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced open-source relational database.

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Preview for Proprietary Vendor Data Warehousing and Big Data Management
▶Proprietary Vendor Data Warehousing and Big Data Management

Proprietary Vendor Data Warehousing and Big Data Management

Managed proprietary and sensitive big datasets in Google Cloud using GCS, BigQuery, and Composer (Apache Airflow). Built Confluence documentation from scratch...

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▶Restaurant Franchise ETL and Data Model Development

Restaurant Franchise ETL and Data Model Development

Built accounting and point-of-sale data warehouse ETL processes and data models for restaurant franchise analytics including Blaze Pizza and other chains,...

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◇Saint Louis Regional Data Alliance

Saint Louis Regional Data Alliance

A civic open data and analytics initiative where I supported architecture and platform design.

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▶Sharded Redis Cluster for High-Capacity Low-Latency Buffer

Sharded Redis Cluster for High-Capacity Low-Latency Buffer

Configured a 54-node, 1TB in-memory Redis cluster with Twemproxy for real-time ad-bidding data throughput, handling extremely high concurrent reads and writes...

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▪Snowflake

Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-native data warehouse platform.

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