# Timothy Vergenz

> Experienced software engineer & data scientist. Passionate about doing good.

Location: Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timothyvergenz

Seeking a role in data or software engineering at a company with a positive impact on society. (Tackling climate change, public health, education, inequality, etc. I'm open-minded about what that impact may be. 🙂)

Strengths:

Passion & energy – for civic, social, & climate equity; hope in humanity’s capacity to cooperate

Data – SQL expert (advanced joins, window functions, recursive CTEs, query optimization, ...); data extraction & orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, ETL/ELT architectures, etc.); data modeling in
dbt; visualization & communication of findings with stakeholders

Software engineering – expert @ Git, Python, JavaScript, Bash scripting, CI/CD; opinionated
toward human-centered design, security, maintainability, clarity, & incrementalism; deft at Jira

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Nava
Jan 2024 – Present | Jacksonville, Florida, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ SemanticBits is now part of ICF
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Jacksonville, Florida, United States
- Transferred to SWE to backfill critical maintenance & security remediation needs for CMS Quality Payments Program analysis & reporting platform (custom BI tool + ancillary svcs.)
- Implemented custom visualization types for data science team in React & Python/Flask
- Found & remediated 5+ critical-severity actually-exploitable security vulnerabilities (e.g. plaintext disclosure of auth signing secret) across 3+ microservices over 12 months

### Data Scientist @ SemanticBits is now part of ICF
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- First hire on CMS Clinical Standards and Quality analytics & reporting strategy contract
- Explored nursing home abuse citations via dbt / SQL & produced QuickSight dashboard
- Built ELT pipeline for enterprise QuickSight usage metadata using AWS APIs & dbt; produced executive dashboard to evaluate cost savings & monitor progress of agency data modernization
- Extended Python dbt-core to integrate SQL comments into table & column documentation
- Researched & prototyped SQL PoC for a dbt Redshift direct-to-S3 external table materialization

### Data Scientist @ True Link Financial
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Owned data modeling, governance process, & analysis in Sisense BI; identified causes of signup dropoff, evaluated marketing campaigns, found early predictors of retention, & more
- ID’d & fixed critical oversight in core growth metric calculation; led to major business pivot
- Refined core growth metric to focus on revenue streams best aligned with customer value, and adapted sales team incentive formula to align with core metric changes & improve auditability

### Product Manager @ True Link Financial
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA
- Coordinated product, data, and operations to launch Ohio ABLE Act card program on 3-month timeline, providing liquidity to tax-advantaged savings for people with disabilities
- Designed & launched HIPAA-compliant encryption for customer attachments and notes, an embeddable product signup widget for landing pages, self-serve user management, and more
- Identified erroneous growth metrics reporting in an important market segment and rolled out a fix, contributing to strategic company pivot away from that market

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Udacity
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA
- Led Careers engineering team to launch Udacity’s Career Portal to >30k students
- Managed team to launch Google-backed Android certification exam in 2 months, including deadline tracking, one-time payments, and ID verification; >$1 million in purchases
- Built escalation flow for anomalous project submissions, saving thousands of hours of staff and contractor time

### Teaching Assistant (Automata & Complexity Theory) @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Atlanta, GA

### Software Engineer Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New York, NY
Developed strategies to detect fraud, investigate cyber intrusion incidents,
analyze phishing campaigns, and detect data exfiltration; co-inventor on a patent

### Forward Deployed Engineer Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA

### Teaching Assistant (Circuits, Assembly, & C Programming) @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Atlanta, GA

### Intern @ Align Networks
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Jacksonville, FL

### Intern @ CSX Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Jacksonville, FL


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vergenzt
- GitHub: http://github.com/vergenzt
- Website: http://stackoverflow.com/users/718180/vergenzt

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Last updated: 2026-03-22