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Robert West

I'm an NYC based Full Stack Software/Data Engineer. I'm a problem solver and a builder.

In my free time I enjoy playing guitar and yoga.

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About me

I'm a Full Stack Software Engineer and Data Engineer.

I've spent a great deal of my career working on enterprise level data pipelines and providing Data Engineering support and Leadership to Data Warehouse and Analytics organizations.

I'm a Solutions Engineer, a problem solver and a builder. I love to code, I love to mentor and teach. I love to design systems and projects. I have applied my skills across software engineering, analytics, data engineering, strategic planning, stakeholder relations, staff coaching and team development. I have proven success in finding simple solutions to complex data-centric problems to foster lasting prosperity.

  • Location:Brookyln, NY
  • Nationality:UK/US Dual Citizen
  • Study:Carnegie Mellon
  • Interests:Guitar, Health & Fitness, Meditation & Yoga

Skills

Languages
Python
SQL
JavaScript
TypeScript
Clojure
Frontend
React
Nextjs
Backend
Node/Express
Python/Flask
NextJS
Data Engineering
Python/Pandas
Python/dask/multiprocessing
Apache Airflow
Apache Spark
Database/Data Warehouse
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Snowflake
AWS Redshift
Analytics/Data Science
Python/Pandas
Jupyter Notebook
python/matplotlib/seaborn
python/statsmodels
python/scikit-learn

Work

Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

TalkiatryDec 2024 - Present

• Enhancing Team Efficiency and Well-being: Led a critical overhaul of the alerting system, reducing non-actionable after-hours alerts by integrating a dual-tier notification process using PagerDuty for critical issues and email alerts for non-critical warnings. This initiative significantly improved engineer morale and operational efficiency while maintaining the integrity of essential pipeline processes.


• Driving System Resilience: Implemented AWS MWAA to optimize job scheduling, eliminating cascading failures and conflicts in critical data pipelines. This solution improved system reliability and reduced manual intervention.


• Streamlining Development and Deployment: Led the migration of legacy Databricks code to a modern CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, ensuring all new code undergoes thorough code review to prevent bugs. This initiative automated testing and deployment processes, significantly reducing manual overhead and improving development consistency and reliability.


• Mentorship and Skill Development: Provided ongoing mentorship to team members, focusing on best practices in Python programming. Empowered engineers to write cleaner, more efficient code, leading to higher code quality and better overall team productivity.

Education

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computational Finance

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business2010

The MSCF program is the joint venture of four colleges on our campus - the Tepper School of Business, the Mathematical Sciences Department, the Department of Statistics, and the Heinz College.


The MSCF curriculum seamlessly integrates instruction in probability, statistical analysis, numerical methods, computation and simulation methods, stochastic processes, economics, and their application in today’s quantitative financial markets.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Mathematics

The University of Kent2007

Dissertation: Detailed enumeration of Latin Squares distinguishing characteristics and relationship to both combinatorial objects and group theory

Projects


practice-makes-performer

Designed to help musicians of all kinds improve their skills by customizing the playback of any song... and saving the state.

GithubSite
practice-makes-performer

Designed to help musicians of all kinds improve their skills by customizing the playback of any song... and saving the state.

#nextjs#react#tailwindcss#typescript#vercel

GithubPortfolio

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Github
GithubPortfolio

Turn your Github Profile into a beautifully rendered Portfolio website in minutes for Free!

#material-ui#nextjs#react#tailwindcss#typescript

audioAnimated

An interactive web application that allows users to create music with beautiful animations that move to your music and share their creations with their freinds

GithubSite
audioAnimated

An interactive web application that allows users to create music with beautiful animations that move to your music and share their creations with their freinds

#audiocontext#express#material-ui#react#redux#webworkers

spirit-cat

A simple, no thrills app to help users track their finances

GithubSite
spirit-cat

A simple, no thrills app to help users track their finances

blockchain

Simulating aspects of blockchain technology to help me remember how they work. This project could be extended to create a web application that simulates the blockchain as a learning tool.

Github
blockchain

Simulating aspects of blockchain technology to help me remember how they work. This project could be extended to create a web application that simulates the blockchain as a learning tool.

#bitcoin#blockchain#cryptocurrency#javascript#nodejs

blog-post-analysis

Analysing blog post data using Spark/Scala

Github
blog-post-analysis

Analysing blog post data using Spark/Scala

#scala#spark

I met Robert upon joining Signify Health where he would become a manager under my supervision. Immediately one could tell that he had a great understanding of his team's culture and had an ever-present finger on its pulse...

-- Anton Fritsch, Vice President of Engineering at Atlas Health

Robert always led by example, and I was lucky enough to work under his leadeship for around 2 years. I was always impressed by his ability to push us to reach our full potential...

-- Ankit Shah, Data Warehouse Engineer 4 at TrueCar, Inc.

I've been lucky enough to work with Robert for the last 4 years at Signify Health and Remedy Partners. Robert has been a great manager, teacher, role model, and friend to me and others...

-- Jakov Kendes, Data Engineer at Mount Sinai Health System

One of the best managers out there. Robert helped prioritize work efficiently for me and members of the data warehouse team, explaining concepts in software and data engineering for all levels...

-- Nick Iyer, Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer at TEKsystems

Robert was my manager during my summer internship at Signify Health. He is not only a good manager but also a great mentor...

-- Chaitanya Bachhav, Web Developer at SciQuel

Get in touch.

Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to ask me about my work or if you'd like to collaborate on a project together

Location
Brookyln, NY
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