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Elena Denner

Durham,NC

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data Engineer

Fidelity Investments
01.2023 - Current
  • Collaborated and contributed to the mid-tier and backend applications of Decision Support Tool, a product designed to assist users in healthcare enrollment by estimating their personalized total costs under each provided plan.
  • Developed and supported web APIs using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3 to handle extraction, cleaning, and summarization of health care data for consumption by a recommendation engine.
  • Led team in design and development of new business feature to include Dental and Vision Support in DST.
  • Implemented services for inserting, updating, and deleting records in DynamoDB using AWS SDK.
  • Improved API performance by identifying bottlenecks and introducing asynchronous processing where applicable.
  • Created Splunk dashboard for monitoring of application logs and analytics of application requests.
  • Enhanced application error handling and wrote scheduled Splunk queries for reporting of encountered errors.
  • Worked with and maintain container orchestration services (Docker and Kubernetes) and troubleshoot EKS issues using kubetcl commands.

Data Analyst Intern

SCRAM Systems
08.2022 - 12.2022
  • Built web scraper project in Python to parse location data from HTML pages.
  • Cleaned and formatted data into a relational format to be stored in SQL Server.
  • Designed tables in SQL Server following industry best practices for relational database design.
  • Implemented stored procedures in SQL to handle complex queries and optimize database engine performance.
  • Computed quantitative summary statistics regarding site locations to answer business questions and determine areas for company growth.
  • Created data visualizations in Excel to summarize findings and presented final output to business leadership.
  • Implemented task scheduler to run the web scraper and stored procedure each month for automated report generation.

Student Research Intern

University of Michigan
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Collaborated on Electronic Health Records Project to build a logistic regression model to classify hospitalization status of ~900,000 patients using their comorbidities, BMI, patient demographics, and clinical labs.
  • Conducted extensive data wrangling and text mining in R.
  • Feature engineered lab data into binary variables in order to train a LASSO penalized linear regression model on the data set.
  • Concluded that clinical labs data did improve model accuracy beyond demographics and comorbidities from 69.8% to 80.5% and that pregnancy related lab tests contributed the most predictive power.
  • Presented the project findings at a research symposium to Michigan Biostatistics Faculty and Staff.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Applied And Computational Mathematics

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
05.2022

Skills

  • Java and Spring Framework
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • JUnit and Mockito
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Splunk and Datadog
  • Agile and Jira
  • SQL Server

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - April 2023

Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification



Timeline

Data Engineer

Fidelity Investments
01.2023 - Current

Data Analyst Intern

SCRAM Systems
08.2022 - 12.2022

Student Research Intern

University of Michigan
06.2021 - 08.2021

Bachelor of Science - Applied And Computational Mathematics

University of Notre Dame
Elena Denner