# Jasmine Omeke > Senior Big Data Software Engineer | LinkedIn Learning Author | Fulbright Research Scholar | Masters in Computer Science Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jasmineomeke Harvard graduate and career changer with experience in program management and software engineering. Fulbright research scholar & Masters in Computer Science. Interested in civic tech, ethnography, and urban cartography. Currently learning Elixir. ## Work Experience ### Senior Big Data Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2020 – Present *** Product & Data Engineering / ML Enablement *** • Engineer consumer-facing data privacy and legal software products in Scala and Python; improve infrastructure and scalability by layering in effective monitoring, alerting, and testing • Implemented unit and integration test suites to add coverage for previously-untested codebases • Create core datasets necessary to enable strategic automation of data attribute detection, enable machine learning, and reduce manual input from data owners • Wrote monitoring framework for device data pipeline, receiving hundreds of petabytes of data daily • Implemented the Java backend of a service that calls to several internal APIs during the company’s annual hackathon *** Leadership *** • Coordinate with senior management and other engineers to set direction on opportunities to scale department’s testing and monitoring strategy; craft presentation materials to disseminate knowledge; work with core team to move ideations into internal tooling • Work closely with other groups like product, legal, business analysts, UX, and project management throughout delivery of solutions • Identify and monitor project and process risks; proactively scope timeline of technical improvements and establish risk mitigation and contingency plans ### LinkedIn Learning Content Author & Instructor @ LinkedIn Jan 2019 – Present | Santa Barbara, California Area My "Unit Testing in Python" Course: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/unit-testing-in-python/python-unit-testing-with-pytest?u=2120684 ### Code for Equity Fellow @ Impact Labs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote Published a landlord tech (prop tech) guide for tenants, focusing on ways they can retain their data privacy as increasing parts of the rental process include technology. The Code For Equity Fellowship is a program for engineers who want to tackle the biggest challenges facing the tech sector today. Fellows will work together in small teams and learn how to build sustainable, anti-racist, equitable products and systems. ### iOS Developer @ Self Employed Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote Built performant iOS app focused on food access ### Braintree Software Engineer - Data Platform & Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (Distributed Systems) @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area *** Machine Learning Enablement *** • Deployed offline machine learning (ML) model into production to improve payment processor's decision making capability • Re-skilled to learn gRPC API framework, used to deploy online ML models to production *** Distributed Systems: Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Observability Engineering *** • Architected and built multi-threaded Java application, run on AWS EMR with Kubernetes, that monitored data freshness to determine bottlenecks in the data pipeline architecture and measure SLOs to determine whether the team’s SLAs were being met. • Managed AWS EMR assets with Terraform; Infrastructure tooling development and security management with Terraform, Jenkins, and Docker • Test-driven development with Java, Python, and Ruby • Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Engineering with AWS, Spark, Hive, Hadoop & Airflow (cron job and Airflow operator development) *** ETL development *** • Built and tested malleable frameworks for ETL-ing petabytes of data at scale with lambda architecture (mix of batch and streaming) • Created self-service tooling and abstractions to help analysts, engineers and business users carry out lightweight ETLs, dashboards or monitoring *** Team Enablement *** • Mentored and onboarded engineers of varying levels to the data platform domain • Increased capacity across teams and within Airflow open source community by creating tooling that improved productivity ### Software Engineering Intern, Graduate Student - Big Data Platform Engineering @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Jupyter Notebooks development (devops and cloud computing with Google Cloud) & front-end prototyping • Brief break to go back to school ### Software Engineer - Data Platform Engineering @ ShopRunner Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area *** Data Platform Engineering *** • Back-end application development in Java, Kotlin, and Scala, using Spring Boot as framework. • Built ETL pipelines, validations, data models & Looker dashboards. • Relevant tech: AWS, MySQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Looker, Solr, Snowplow Analytics *** Machine Learning Enablement *** • Built, tested, and validated data pipelines in Java, Python and SQL to support machine learning and recommender systems rollout from data science team *** Front-end development *** • Chrome extension development in Javascript with Frontend product team (2 sprint rotation) *** Infrastructure tooling development *** • Terraform modularization with DevOps team (2 sprint rotation) ### Assistant Director @ The University of Chicago Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area • Career Advancement, subdivision of Enrollment and Student Advancement • Higher education and program management; internal website development ### Fulbright Research Fellow - Anthropology @ German-American Fulbright Commission Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany Research Fellow at the African Music Archive of Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz ### Management Trainee - Computer Systems & Sales Operations @ McMaster-Carr Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Chicago Area • Front-end development and design on the eLearning team using Javascript, CSS/Sass, HTML5, and Adobe's Creative Cloud ### Legislative Aide, Illinois’s 2nd congressional district @ United States Congress Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Washington D.C. Metro Area • Chosen out of a pool of 300+ applicants for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Internship Program. • Attended a White House briefing presented by Mr. Ronnie Cho, former White House Director of Youth Engagement. • Drafted correspondence, answered phones, researched legislative issues, and facilitated meetings and policy paper submissions for the summer mock congress, comprised of 40 interns. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Social Studies (focus in Urban Planning), Cum Laude, High Honors in field Harvard University ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science DePaul University ### Urban Studies & Affairs in Study Abroad Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ### Technical Interview Prep (Summer Course) CodePath Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### iOS Mobile Development (Semester-long course) CodePath Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### High School Diploma Whitney M. Young Magnet High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ywnfm5 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jasmineomeke JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jasmineomeke/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22