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Education
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Data Engineering Lead

Gbadebo Ayoade

Google
Kyle,TX
14
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Data engineer lead with 10+ years of professional experience with proven skills in Data Science, Machine Learning, and Big Data Technologies with interest in the field of Software Research and Development.

Work History

Data Engineering Lead

6 Years 7 Months
Google | 04.2020 - Current
  • Designed and implemented statistical data generation module to synthesize case/issue generation pattern using Python and SQL
  • Performed Query Tuning and Parameter tuning to increase ETL Pipeline throughput in Dataflow and Dataproc.
  • Designed and implemented tool to rank bug priorities to help with faster resolution.
  • Implemented Hadoop/Spark stress testing module for GCP Dataproc Clusters using Pyspark
  • Implemented tools and automation to improve usability of Google Cloud products.
  • Write troubleshooting guides used by the frontline team to drive speedy resolution of common classes of cloud infrastructure problems.
  • Deliver onboarding training for new members of this worldwide team.
  • Handle technical issue escalations and operational responsibilities day to day.
  • Work with key accounts to improve technical client experience and address negative patterns or concerns with product team.
  • Act as a Data Analyst. Write queries and generate dashboards for visualization. Generate business intelligence around client technical bottlenecks for GCP in general in order to better manage the team.
  • Identify training or process gaps. Highlight problem areas for each product and bring those to the product team.

Data Engineer

1 Year
Procter & Gamble | 12.2018 - 12.2019
  • Developed and applied machine learning based approach to successfully detect and mitigate real attack threats on the enterprise network
  • Feature extraction and dimensionality reduction using PCA
  • Kmeans clustering for network node behavioral modelling and malicious activity detection
  • Explored and Implemented Deep learning based approach for feature extraction such as LSTM autoencoder for packet sequence data analysis using Keras TensorFlow 2.0 framework
  • Explored and implemented complex deep learning graph topologies using keras TensorFlow functional API
  • Leveraged AWS, pyspark for large scale network log processing (1TB/day)

Research Assistant

4 Years 11 Months
The University of Texas at Dallas | 01.2015 - 12.2019
  • Large scale data processing with Apache Spark, Hadoop. Machine learning and natural processing language applications.
  • Transfer learning using pre-trained deep learning models with Keras.
  • Keras deep learning model topology modification for custom classification.
  • Network data collection both for system calls and network packet data
  • Responsible for data identification, collection, exploration, cleaning for modeling.
  • Gathered data from multiple web, external data sources and APIs, writing SQL to join and aggregate various data for analysis.
  • Hands on experience in implementing Machine Learning algorithms like
    K-Nearest Neighbors, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Decision Trees, Random Forests.
  • Hands on experience in performing Dimensionality Reduction with Technique like Principal Component Analysis
  • Text analytics on threat report data using Natural Language Processing Tool Kit (NLTK) and natural language processing techniques using Word vectors.
  • Created various types of data visualizations using Matplotlib.

Bigdata/Software Engineering Development Intern

2 Months
Verizon Labs | 06.2016 - 08.2016
  • Tuned Cassandra  and Kafka cluster to handle 250,000 writes/sec
  • Optimized Kafka topic partition to increase throughput
  • Tuned Cassandra CQL to optimize performance
  • Setup of production grade docker, mesos, marathon application framework for Internet of things
    (IOT) pipeline for large scale message handling (250,000 messages per sec) Identified bottlenecks
    and performed system tuning that improved IOT application message throughput.
  • Developed an IOT pipeline for more than 60 million virtual IOT devices using microservices architecture.
  • Automated deployment scripting using bash, expect and python.

Intern Summer Software Engineer

2 Months
Fedex | 06.2014 - 08.2014
  • Implemented Mobile Based App with customer identification and In-store service recommendation system.
  • IPhone/IPad Development FedEx Office Print mobile Application.
  • Restful webservices.
    Objective C, Passbook implementation.

Software Engineer

3 Years 4 Months
Interswitch | 09.2009 - 01.2013

KIMONO:
Point of Sale Management System

  • Developed SQL stored procedures for managing sales data
  • Implemented SQL queries for managing POS transactions on resource constrained devices using sqlite
  • Data exchange specification using RESTFUL web services and XML  

Education

Ph.D - Data Science, Computer Science

The University of Texas | Dallas, TX | 12.2019

Advisor: Dr. Latifur Khan

MSc - Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas | Richardson, TX | 2015

Skills

GCP Dataproc
Dataflow
PubSub
Composer
BigQuery
GCS storage
and Cloud SQL
Python (Sklearn
NumPy
Pandas
Jupyter)
Java
C++/C
and SQL
Machine Learning TensorFlow
Apache Spark ML
Keras
PCA
K-Means and CoreNLP APIs
Big Data Tools Apache Hadoop
Map-reduce
Pig
Hive
and Spark
Databases SQL (Oracle
MySQL
and MSSQL) and NoSQL

Certification

  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer. https://google.accredible.com/7026e595-933c-46f1-b44e-f1151a561d2e
  • Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer https://google.accredible.com/476d0f8e-b86b-4f60-8090-0845b0b8a457
  • Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/F6DMRZW3EM95
  • Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/W2L89XZ5UCTE
  • Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with GCP https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/QMV2XZT5RNZB

Awards and Scholarship

  • Erik Jonsson full scholarship for PhD in computer science with emphasis on processing large
    datasets.
  • EGBA Leventis community scholarship for outstanding student. Federal Government scholarship.
    TEACHING Instructor Winter Break Workshop 2017: Data Analysis using Python
  • Teaching Assistant: CS 6350 Big Data Management and Analytics Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015
    and Spring 2016.
  • Teaching Assistant: CS6396 Real Time System Fall 2014 and Fall 2015.

Timeline

Data Engineering Lead

Google
04.2020 - CurrentRead More

Data Engineer

Procter & Gamble
12.2018 - 12.2019Read More

Bigdata/Software Engineering Development Intern

Verizon Labs
06.2016 - 08.2016Read More

Research Assistant

The University of Texas at Dallas
01.2015 - 12.2019Read More

Intern Summer Software Engineer

Fedex
06.2014 - 08.2014Read More

Software Engineer

Interswitch
09.2009 - 01.2013Read More

The University of Texas

Ph.D from Data Science, Computer Science
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The University of Texas at Dallas

MSc from Computer Science
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Gbadebo Ayoade