Data Scientist Software Development

ABDON NWAOKOCHA

+1-706-***-**** ***************@*****.*** Atlanta, Ga

Summary

Engineering Leader/ Fullstack Engineer / Data Scientist / Artificial Intelligence (AI) / IT Planning & Development / Systems Design & Development / Cloud / Agile / Data Integration & ETL

Experience

Pluralsight

Director 10/2022 - Present

•Led the development and implementation of robust and scalable API solutions, coordinating cross-functional teams to integrate 10+ systems, resulting in a 40% increase in interoperability and a 30% reduction in data redundancy across the organization

•Managed and mentored a team of 15 software engineers, establishing clear development goals and providing technical guidance, improving in code quality and team productivity over 12 months

•Architected scalable software solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and best practices, which reduced infrastructure costs by 20% while improving application performance by 35%

•Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for software development projects, considering factors such as performance, scalability, and maintainability

•Conducted and facilitated code reviews to enforce coding standards, resulting in a 50% decrease in post-release defects and a 20% increase in code maintainability

•Optimized software applications by identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, using profiling tools and optimization techniques to improve efficiency

•Implemented comprehensive security protocols including data encryption, multi-factor authentication, and regular security audits, which enhanced system security and reduced potential vulnerabilities

•Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines, automating 90% of the deployment processes, which decreased deployment times by 50% and minimized downtime during releases

•Designed and implemented RESTful and GraphQL APIs that facilitated communication across systems, resulting in an improvement in data exchange efficiency and an increase in user satisfaction

•Designed database schemas, optimized database queries, and ensured data consistency and integrity in software applications

•Develop and implement strategic plans for software development projects, aligning with the company's overall business objectives and priorities

•Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards

•Collaborated closely with product managers and stakeholders, translating business requirements into technical specifications, which improved project alignment with business goals

•Provided technical leadership and guidance, implementing industry best practices, which led to a 30% increase in team innovation and a 25% reduction in technical debt

•Establish and maintain quality assurance processes and standards to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products

•Provide technical guidance and mentoring to software engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow professionally

•Manage the software engineering budget, allocate resources effectively, and optimize resource utilization to maximize productivity and efficiency

•Proactively identified and mitigated project risks, implementing contingency plans that reduced project delays by 30% and ensured timely delivery

Spot

Snr Engineering Manager 03/2022 - 10/2022

•Led and organized cross-functional project teams to develop sophisticated product applications, increase our product adoption and improve our user satisfaction ratings

•Managed multiple engineering teams and aligned strategic goals with tactical plans, improving team efficiency faster than projected timelines

•Translated complex business goals into actionable roadmaps, which led to increase in project success rates and ensured alignment with organizational objectives

•Drove the long-term strategy of the engineering organization, which included overseeing development, quality assurance, and DevOps, resulting in a 40% increase in productivity

•Provided reliable estimates, tracked and managed technical debt, and prioritized tasks based on business needs, while also driving technical insights to improve overall development processes

•Provided reliable project estimates and managed technical debt, reducing project overruns by 20%

•Collaborated with senior stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery, leading to a 95% on-time delivery rate and a 30% reduction in project-related issues

•Provided support for new architectural and design execution, analyzing and revamping in-house web applications to optimize for high-speed performance, enhancing user experience and system efficiency

•Led multidisciplinary teams consisting of full-stack developers, UX/UI designers, and product managers, fostering collaboration and synergy among different professionals to drive successful project outcomes

•Advocated for the development of high-quality mockups and prototypes, which improved stakeholder communication and reduced design approval times

•Successfully transitioned 60 engineers from offshore to in-house teams, maintaining productivity levels and meeting 100% of quarterly key performance goals during the transition

Postscript

Engineering Manager 04/2021 - 03/2022

•Streamlined the deployment process to eliminate deployment bottlenecks, significantly improving the developer experience, throughput, resulting in reduction deployment errors

•Led continuous improvement initiatives on the front-end workflow, which enhanced production efficiency by 30% and improved product quality, leading to an increase in customer satisfaction

•Managed the recruitment process for engineering teams, successfully filling 10 critical positions, which supported organizational growth and led to a 15% increase in team capacity

•Collaborated on technical roadmaps and executed technical initiatives, which fostered engineering efficiency, enabling organizational scalability, and improving project velocity, and project delivery speed by 20%

•Provided direct management to engineering teams, fostering a productive work environment that resulted in a consistent alignment with the product roadmap and improved retention rate

•Proposed and managed budgets for projects, effectively planning and executing strategies to ensure timely completion of projects, while also ensuring budgetary compliance

•Established and continuously improved development and team processes that maximize efficiency in day-to-day engineering operations, enhancing productivity and quality of work

•Mentored engineers in technical and professional development, which improved individual performance by 20% and increased team expertise in key technical areas

•Carried out performance management duties for direct reports through just-in-time feedback, regular 1:1 meeting, conducting annual reviews, and identifying continuous improvement opportunities, fostering individual growth and performance excellence

•Defined and executed a strategic roadmap for data architecture and aligning it with future business goals, which improved decision-making processes and data accessibility

Honeywell Atlanta Ga

Sr Advanced Software Engineer, DevOps Lead 02/2019 - 03/2021

•Orchestrated the deployment of infrastructure using Terraform for AWS and Azure cloud providers, while also designing and documenting best practices, and improved consistency across environments

•Led a diverse team of 13 professionals in implementing data techniques on the Hadoop data lake, which improved data processing efficiency by 30% and reduced analysis time by 20%

•Designed and customized data lakes for cloud platforms, meeting customer requirements that improved data retrieval speeds by 25% and reduced storage costs by 15%

•Optimized Application Performance Monitoring (APM), which enabled predictive trend alerting, reducing production issues by 40% and increasing system reliability

•Implemented disaster recovery strategies, including High Availability via ELB and Multi-AZ, which ensured 99.9% system uptime and minimized data loss during incidents

•Collaborated with data delivery teams to set up new Hadoop users, including Linux/AD user setup, Kerberos principal setup, and HDFS testing, ensuring seamless data access for users

•Optimized Hadoop cluster processes, including autoscaling and security enforcement, which improved data management efficiency and enhanced cluster security

•Led a team in monitoring Hadoop cluster connectivity and security, including zone creation encryption and enforcement of Ranger policies, while streamlining processes for Hadoop ACLS, enhancing cluster security and simplifying access management

•Managed OS security patching and SSL certification, ensuring compliance with industry standards and improving system security

•Oversaw the management of 1500+ virtual machines in the Azure environment, including the configuration of multiple servers using Ansible to attach and mount disks to the virtual machines, and improving VM performance

•Managed Kubernetes clusters and collaborated with various teams to ensure high data quality

•Led system performance analysis and troubleshooting efforts, resolving 95% of customer-reported issues within SLA timeframes and maintaining system stability

LexisNexis Atlanta Ga

Software Engineer III, Model Scoring & Analytics. 06/2015 - 01/2019

•Developed a Python-based GUI for script automation, reducing the time required to create automation scripts by 40% and improving data extraction efficiency

•Leveraged Spark computation frameworks to analyze big data, increasing data processing speeds by 30% and enhancing the accuracy of predictive models

•Developed predictive models for State Farm Auto, Home and Life insurance calculations using data profiling, quality assessment, extraction, transformation and load techniques

•Implemented data governance and master data management approaches to ensure accuracy and consistency

•Utilized Spark framework to analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data

•Translated findings into actionable insights through innovative techniques such as scorecard transformations and attribute building

•Analyzed structured and unstructured data through model scoring to develop best-in-class predictive and prescriptive models and decision tools

•Successfully migrated on-premises data to the cloud, resulting in reduced costs and increased scalability

•Streamlined application migration process

•Promoted code via Git and tracked issues with Atlassian tools, leading to a 25% reduction in deployment errors and a 15% improvement in development workflows

•Worked with QA team for quality testing of models built for customers

•Constantly working with partners to perform validation and provide effective tests of CI/CD pipeline and rectify any fatalistic validation outcomes

•Migrated on-premises data to the cloud, resulting in a 30% reduction in operational costs and increased system scalability by 40%

•Enhanced defunct modeling approaches through continuous profiling and analysis, driving a 20% improvement in model accuracy and success rates

Education

Georgia State University Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science May 2015

Skills/Tech Stack

Python, Java, Bash, JavaScript, CSS, R, SAS, SQL, HTML, PowerShell, Ecl, Graphql, Node.JS Express, GraphQL, Apollo Studio, Typescript, Postgres, Kubernetes, New Relic, Grafana, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, Ansible, Docker, Ops Genie, Git, tableau, Terraform Jenkins, Dremio, Ranger, Waterline, HashiCorp Vault, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Databricks, Privacera, Ambari, Nifi, Domino, Rancher, Bitbucket, Informatica, Grafana, Splunk

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