Experience
2020 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
● Managed Airflow cluster upgrades from 1.10.x > 2.0.x > 2.2.x > 2.6.x, in all areas (image builds, deployment charts, CICD, DAG migration). Regular developer of internal libraries, modifications, administration, and debugging.
● Contributor to internal Kafka Connector and Single Message Transforms (custom metrics, throughput, memory optimization) in the context of change data capture replication, focused on sink connectors.
● Internal support to Data Science and XFN teams in the capacity of a developer/administrator of the data warehouse and other OLAP infrastructure.
● Past/ad-hoc work on custom ETL integrations, EMR, data search, API integrations (JIRA/Slack/Okta) with internal tools.
Malawi
● Collaborates with principal investigators to refine study protocols and research designs (randomized controlled trials and regression discontinuity designs).
● Develops surveys and digital data collection instruments for computer-assisted interviewing.
● Implements study protocols for quality control, data cleaning, and analysis.
● Trains interns in statistical programming to implement high-frequency checks and back-checks.
● Designed and developed custom tracking and monitoring mobile money transactions to field teams using IFTTT Applets and Android software development.
● Tracks expenditures, project budget, and generates financial reports.
● Hires, manages, and trains survey teams.
● Manages critical high-level relationships with project stakeholders and program partners.
● Produces compelling presentations with appropriate tables and visualizations to communicate complex relationships to audiences of varying statistical literacy.
● Project management ensuring timely deliverables for grant reporting and IRB approval.
● Assists with country office operations, primary key holding, cash management, interviewing job applicants, and procurement.
Santa Cruz, CA
● Develops lesson plans for discussion sections to parallel lecture material
● Guides students in learning statistical programming (STATA) in section
● Presented topics in microeconomics to sections of up to 25 undergraduate students
● Holds office hours to provide individual and small group instruction on difficult topics
● Assists in proctoring of exams and grading of students' assignments
● Communicates with students through email in resolving any issues regarding coursework
UC Santa Cruz
● Data scraping publicly available information from internet databases (Python : BeautifulSoup4)
● Data cleaning and normalization (Python)
● Strategized approach in accessing databases through VPN to overcome firewall issues
● Utilized browser automation on more complicated scraping projects (Python : Selenium)
2016 — 2016
Aptos, CA
● Obtained Google Analytics Individual Qualification
● Used Google Analytics in combination with R and Python to build custom queries
● Created customized datasets to reflect more granular insights
● Applied appropriate visualizations to best represent the data (ggplot2, matplotlib, seaborn)
● Consumed many energy drinks
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Master’s Degree
University of California, Santa Cruz