# Whelan Workmaster

> Senior Data Engineer at Formation Bio

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/whelan

## Work Experience
### Senior Data Engineer @ Formation Bio
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Senior Data Engineer leading the growth of Formation Bio’s data platform, delivering scalable governance, compliance, and automation solutions with Snowflake and Dagster.

• Data Platform & Governance
Expanded Snowflake into a company-wide platform by leading a full RBAC redesign, creating structured team roles, and establishing clear data ownership and access practices.

• Compliance & Resilience
Designed and implemented automated backup and restore workflows in Snowflake to meet FDA requirements, ensuring reliable data retention and recovery beyond native capabilities.

• Data Engineering & Automation
Developed and maintained Dagster pipelines for large-scale ingestion and analytics, with CI/CD automation to streamline dbt deployments and improve platform stability.

• Infrastructure & Tooling
Built an in-house, Terraform-managed governance solution that replaced a vendor service, simplifying access management and adoption across the company.

• Emerging Tech
Adopted AI development tools (Claude with MCP servers) to accelerate SQL and Python delivery, significantly improving engineering velocity.

• Recognition
Promoted to Senior Data Engineer for driving advancements in governance, compliance, and platform engineering.

### Software Engineer II @ Formation Bio
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ greyshore
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
C#, Net Core, Bash, Terraform, Azure Functions, Azure CosmosDB

Freelance Consulting, Built new data ingestion platform for international testing company that processes 10,000+ events daily
Utilized CI/CD pipelines in Azure to deploy full terraform infrastructure to cloud with zero downtime
Implemented full automated end to end testing of ingestion functions as part of pipeline that allowed quick releases with reliability ensured

### Senior Software Engineer Consultant @ ThoughtWorks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer Consultant @ ThoughtWorks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
Consulting - Feedback Platform; New York, NY

Spring Boot Java, GoCD, React, Redux, TypeScript, MySQL, Hibernate

Implemented features on Java Spring Boot backend microservices and on React Redux with Typescript frontend
Full stack developer on team supporting feedback product for global consultancy

Championed Epic to automate business configuration rules from manual Json updating by developers to business driven validated and audited solution which reduced manual workload for team by on average 20%
Lead creation of solution for scenarios where multiple user instances of frontend caused data loss, reducing instances of user data loss by 33%.
Managed deployments through GoCD pipelines to Kubernetes cluster with monitoring tools via Splunk, NewRelic, and Prometheus
Introduced major overhaul of the automated Cucumber Selenium journey tests for the project which allowed for repeatable dynamic runs that randomized elements for more comprehensive testing


Data Startup - Data Pipeline/Exchange; New York, NY

Python, Terraform, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB

Delivered a serverless data pipeline/exchange MVP for a new company created to help data sharing for different groups

Architected with team design of data exchange from a total greenfield baseline to a full infrastructure of AWS resources including Python Lambdas, S3, Cloudwatch logging, DynamoDB, as well as connection to a data warehouse on Snowflake
Worked as SME for terraform work on the project, and helped lead design for the full infrastructure of the project in terraform along with building and deploying with Docker

### Software Engineer @ The Home Depot
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area
Spring Boot Java, Microservices, Jenkins, Gatling

Worked on system which facilitates authorization, processing, and booking of transactions from The Home Depot customers, those of which total over 87 billion dollars
Developed Java Spring Boot RESTful web services with code deployment through modern Concourse CI/CT pipelines which allow for rapid deployment and testing
Successfully completed Scala application leveraging Gatling that was able to reprocess thousands of production transactions that were lost during a production issue

### Associate Software Engineer @ Q² Solutions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Georgia State University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/whelan-workmaster-097a9b117

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Last updated: 2026-03-22