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◇US DOD Intelligence Vendor

US DOD Intelligence Vendor

A geospatial and behavioral analytics collaboration tied to federal and public-sector data work.

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This engagement involved work with a big data geospatial and behavioral analytics platform (Torchlight/CrowdPulse) serving federal intelligence clients, focused on decision support built on location observation data and large-scale geospatial analysis (100TB+ class datasets).

I contributed as a data and technology partner via Lando Consulting, building analytics prototypes including: fraud/outlier detection for location data; a system for attaching human-annotated context to observed behaviors; and a large-scale geospatial visualization proof-of-concept enabling analysts to query behavioral combinations across massive datasets. Specific details are necessarily sensitive given the client set.

Preview for Audience Intent Data Model Development
▶Audience Intent Data Model Development

Audience Intent Data Model Development

Designed a unified data model to integrate any data source into a big data geospatial analytics program, handling over 100TB of data in GCS and BigQuery with...

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Preview for Company-Wide Engineering Documentation Initiative
▶Company-Wide Engineering Documentation Initiative

Company-Wide Engineering Documentation Initiative

Developed documentation for hundreds of concepts, systems, datasets, terminology, and deployment procedures. Fought to get the Atlassian stack provided to...

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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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▶Six-Month Turnaround of Stalled Defense Projects

Six-Month Turnaround of Stalled Defense Projects

Brought in under NDA to assess defense-related software projects blocked for over a year despite significant investment. Within six months, diagnosed the...

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Preview for Soft Query Engine (Druid, GKE, Airflow)
▶Soft Query Engine (Druid, GKE, Airflow)

Soft Query Engine (Druid, GKE, Airflow)

Researched and added a query viability layer to a geospatial analytics product used by the US federal government, reducing analytics costs by pre-evaluating...

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