Abby Scarry
Mclean
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
IBM
McLean
01.2026 - Current
- Support ongoing maintenance of Revenue and Project Accounting reports in Snowflake.
- Partner with Finance stakeholders to gather enhancement requests, clarify requirements, and deliver updates to report logic, visualizations, and mart models.
- Delivered knowledge transfer sessions on Revenue and PA data product architecture, data flows, Astro DAGs, and reporting access for team continuity.
- Maintain and enhance Astro Airflow DAGs.
- Support month-end close activities through scheduled data refreshes and manual DES ad-hoc runs.
- Identify and implement streamlining opportunities across GitLab process, report deployment workflows, and documentation.
- Begin onboarding to ExpenseMaster data product to extend support beyond Revenue and PA reporting.
Software Engineer
Red Hat
McLean
07.2025 - 01.2026
- Supported the migration of SAP BusinessObjects and Starburst Finance reports to Snowflake data marts.
- Built and maintained dbt models to recreate legacy report logic, combining multiple data sources for the aggregated Revenue and Project Accounting data products.
- Supported and optimized Astronomer Airflow DAGs that consistently refresh the data marts.
- Diagnosed and resolved pipeline failures and data quality issues in DAGs and downstream dependencies.
- Built and maintained Snowflake Streamlit apps and pages for SOX and critical Finance reports.
- Presented rebuilt reports and data product architecture to Finance stakeholders.
- Analyzed and fixed bugs in report logic and dbt models based on validation findings and user feedback.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Tulane University, Department of CS
New Orleans
01.2024 - 05.2025
- Designing and executing an experiment to explore how the subject matter of data visualizations with missing data or uncertainty affects people's perception of data quality.
- Researched and defined variables, participants, tasks, data visualization methods, etc.
- Created HTML-based line graph template with D3.js, incorporating error bars and random missing data points to represent uncertainty.
IT Intern
Tulane Newcomb Institute
New Orleans
08.2023 - 05.2025
- Supporting technical operations within a non-profit research and education center by assisting faculty and staff with technical issues and ensuring all hardware/software is functioning properly and updated.
- Working in technical areas such as digital research, asset management, IT customer service, Classroom/AV support, and MacOS and Windows software operating systems.
IT Engineering Intern
Red Hat
05.2024 - 08.2024
- Contributed to development of new data mesh architecture, focusing on simplifying data architecture.
- Validated data within AWS S3 buckets, AWS Glue tables, and Starburst, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
- Researched and explored use of dbt (data build model) for data filtering mechanism and typecasting solutions.
- Used Astronomer and Apache Airflow to implement DAGs for automating an email notification system to alert of data table updates.
- Created web application to automate the standardization and formatting of royalty report spreadsheets (Use of Streamlit, FastAPI, and libraries such as Pandas, PyTorch, and scikit-learn).
Technical Solutions Intern
Uplight
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Developed Python script using the Jira API for ticket status analysis and team comparison and visualizing the results in charts using the matplotlib library.
- Utilized Python script to unenroll customers from Orchestrated Energy Programs through the terminal.
- Created data mapping project in Miro for non-residential portal data, improving data organization and accessibility.
- Diagnosed product portal issues, providing technical support that enhanced client satisfaction.
- Collaborated with multiple departments to identify and resolve bugs/issues, streamlining communication and resolution processes.
Education
Bachelor of - Science and Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Science
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA05-2025
High School Diploma -
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
Georgetown, DC05-2021
Skills
- Programming (Python, Java, C, C)
- Web Development (CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
- Data and Analytics (SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Streamlit)
- Cloud and Ingestion (AWS (S3), Snowpipe, Fivetran)
- AI and Developer tools: Cursor, Gemini, ChatGPT, IBM Bob
- Tools and Collaboration: Git, GitLab, Jira, Microsoft Office Products
Websites
Timeline
Software Engineer
IBM
01.2026 - Current
Software Engineer
Red Hat
07.2025 - 01.2026
IT Engineering Intern
Red Hat
05.2024 - 08.2024
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Tulane University, Department of CS
01.2024 - 05.2025
IT Intern
Tulane Newcomb Institute
08.2023 - 05.2025
Technical Solutions Intern
Uplight
05.2023 - 08.2023
Bachelor of - Science and Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Science
Tulane University
High School Diploma -
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School