Hi, I'm Drew. I move data from where it is to where it's useful.
Data engineer and full-stack developer. I design cloud-native pipelines and the web apps that sit on top of them. Messy at the start, crisp at the end.
Skills by domain
Data Engineering
- Python
- AWS Glue
- Lambda
- Athena
- Airflow
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
Databases
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
- Aurora
- Supabase
Web Dev
- C#
- .NET
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Django
- JavaScript
- BigCommerce
Cloud & DevOps
- Azure
- AWS
- EKS
- Terraform
- Vercel
- Heroku
- GitHub Actions
Hi, I'm Drew. Data engineer & full-stack developer.
I design cloud-native data systems and the web apps that sit on top of them: ETL, migrations and streaming on one side, Django, .NET and React on the other.
Senior Data Engineer @ DSN Software · Tulsa, OK
Senior Data Engineer @ DSN Software
- Convert data from competing dental platforms into DSN, mapping their schemas onto ours. Jobs range from a few hundred GB to several TB.
- Helped build, and now maintain, the automated pipeline that pulls, maps, transforms, validates and loads each conversion.
- Write custom SQL conversions for sources the automation can't handle, and verify them by reconciling record counts and financial totals.
- Build internal conversion tools in our SaaS, run them on EKS with Terraform, and look after our SQL Server databases, from backups to cleanup.
.NET
C#
Python
SQL Server
AWS Glue
Lambda
Athena
MariaDB
EKS
Terraform
S3
ClaudeAssociate Back-End Developer @ Limelight Marketing
- Rewrote a legacy application in Blazor serving 15,000 teachers across Kansas, improving performance and maintainability.
- Built a pipeline moving 1.3M orders, 580K customers and 30M custom field records into the BigCommerce API while managing rate limits.
- Led the migration from a custom platform to BigCommerce SaaS, designing ETL and validation across SQL Server databases.
- Shipped serverless Next.js apps on S3 with GitHub Actions CI/CD; primary client liaison for discovery and status.
.NETC#
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Azure
BigCommerce
Supabase
VercelJunior Data Engineer @ Flynn Group
- Designed ETL pipelines consuming end-of-day files from 1,000+ POS systems into PostgreSQL and Azure SQL.
- Built event streaming with Kafka for real-time ticket data and RabbitMQ for reliable message queuing.
- Developed fault-tolerant batch processing with retry mechanisms for high-volume transforms.
- Azure Functions and Data Factory for pipeline orchestration; Vue.js front ends over Python/PostgreSQL back ends.
PythonC#
PostgreSQLAzure
Vue.js
Kafka
RabbitMQPricing Analyst Intern @ C.H. Robinson
- Built Power BI dashboards over SQL Server for the head pricing analysts.
- Automated a daily data fetch, saving the team ~15 minutes per day.
- Cleaned and analyzed customer and carrier data in Excel to support pricing decisions.
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Excel
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