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TIM BURNS

Location: Lincoln, RI
Email: timburnsowlmtn@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tim-burns-5aa6141
Phone: (401) 954-1620

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal Data Architect

Evolve, Remote | May 2023 - Current

  • Spearheaded the main pricing pipeline for Evolve Vacation Rentals.
  • Implemented demand forecasting using scraped market data from Airbnb.
  • Developed pricing and booking pipelines with dbt and Swagger API on Salesforce.
  • Engineered smart and adaptive data quality analysis frameworks based on dbt.

Senior Software Engineer

Abacus Insights, Boston, MA | October 2021 - April 2023

  • Designed and delivered a claims analytics pipeline using Snowflake Pipes, Streams, and dbt.
  • Integrated Databricks Delta Tables and Snowflake for efficient and scalable data analytics.
  • Built event-driven clinical analytics with Airflow, DynamoDB, SQS, Snowflake, and Tableau.

Data Architect

Kraft Analytics Group, Foxboro, MA | July 2019 – October 2021

  • Designed and implemented Continuous Integration for a Heterogeneous Data Lake.
  • Scaled data ingestion for Customer Marketing, Ticketing, and Stadium Operations.
  • Developed scalable AWS solutions for Redis Caches built on Snowflake Analytics.
  • Established Data Governance Security Groups in AWS and Snowflake for Multi-Tenant Data Lakes.
  • Implemented a Lambda Serverless Architecture for synchronizing UI Portal Data with Snowflake.

Data Architect

Virgin Pulse, Framingham, MA | April 2018 – July 2019

  • Merged and managed multiple Data Engineering Teams across several organizations.
  • Wrote custom reporting and billing contracts for specialized health reporting.
  • Documented and maintained consistent data dictionaries for Tableau, DOMO, Birst, and Redshift SQL.
  • Migrated financial reporting applications from Birst to AWS Redshift.

Lead Software Engineer

Retail Solutions, Providence, RI | July 2002 – April 2018

  • Utilized Oracle and Vertica for a large-scale Kimball-style data warehouse.
  • Created a JQuery/Java/SQL Server application for defining and serving data analytics.
  • Led a team of full-stack Data Engineers (Java, SQL, Tableau) focused on gathering daily retailer POS data.

PUBLICATIONS

A Lean Data Pipeline by Example Towards Data Science, April 2023

Securing the Snowflake Integration on AWS Snowflake, January 2023

Three Literacy Tests for Hiring Data Engineers Better Programming, April 2022

Integrating Snowflake with Glue Towards Data Science, April 2021

Building a Successful Data Initiative Towards Data Science, October 2020

EDUCATION

The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, 1996

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