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Systems that make the work easier: shared platforms, clearer decisions, and less manual coordination. Explore the problem, the approach, and what changed.

Shared services finance · 2016 - 2020

Shared services work management

A shared work management platform for 90+ finance staff: current work items, consistent statuses, persistent notes, and automated reporting in one place.

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Commerce analytics · 2025 - Present

Direct API ingestion framework

A reusable Python and Snowflake framework that loads marketing and commerce platform APIs directly into the warehouse, with shared logging and append-only landing tables, replacing third-party connectors for major sources.

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Commerce analytics · 2025 - Present

Marketing measurement models

The spend, sales, and attribution models behind marketing mix modeling, CAC reporting, and multi-touch attribution for the organization, with QA monitors and governed metric definitions - and an honest boundary around what is still in development.

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Advertising technology · 2021 - 2025

Data modeling and lineage framework

An in-house SQL templating and modeling framework for AWS Athena with column-level lineage, dependency graphs, and generated BI documentation - and the later decision to migrate to SQLMesh.

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Advertising technology · 2021 - 2025

Unified orchestration engine

A Rust job scheduler that replaced orchestration fragmented across Airflow, AWS Step Functions, and Dagster with one operational surface: shared scheduling, error handling, and operational visibility.

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Advertising technology · 2021 - 2025

Inventory prediction, and the courage to delete it

A clustered regression engine for advertising inventory scenarios - evaluated honestly, found no better than a simple baseline, and replaced by a query-based approach with fewer anomalies and simpler extensions.

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Dealer advertising · 2020

Pipeline automation at API-limit scale

Automating management of thousands of Datorama vendor pipelines for the organization with a Python API wrapper: cached configuration, adaptive job checking, and specific detection, retry, and escalation behavior instead of manual queue-watching.

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Automotive operations · 2021

Legacy deployment automation

Giving Informatica a real CI/CD path for the organization: Logic Apps and GitHub Actions driving the Informatica API to promote objects between environments, with automated remapping of the environment-specific IDs that made API-driven promotion hard.

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