Jacob Bouffard
Hatboro,PA
Summary
Software developer and data engineer with over 8 years of experience working with distributed systems, developing normalization routines, and designing API's. In addition has planned, written, and maintained data pipelines and their surrounding architecture for processes that work with TB's of data; as well as developed software application and libraries used in both the public and private sector.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Geospatial Engineering Consultant
Signature Commercial Solutions, LLC
04.2022 - 01.2025
- Expanded, monitored, fixed, and evaluated over five-hundred different Bayer internal and external geospatial tables/views using AWS and open source technologies.
- Saved Bayer approximately five-million dollars annually through consolidation and optimization of AWS EMR/EC2 instances and their ETL processes.
- Troubleshooted and aided on over fifty internal issues regarding geospatial processing; working across multiple teams to diagnose and fix problems at Bayer.
Senior Data Engineer
Penn Interactive
01.2021 - 03.2022
- Developed, tested, and deployed over 50 different tables/views in AWS Redshift and RDS using DBT
- Designed, developed, deployed, and maintained alert systems via AWS SQS and Lambda that monitored activity of over 50,000 users
- Setup and updated AWS microservices such ECS, EC2, Lambda, and SQS using Terraform
Data Engineer
HealthVerity
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Worked with team members to write, debug, and optimize normalization routines for over 15 TB of health care data using Python and Apache Spark
- Developed and maintained automated normalization routines using Airflow for 47 different data providers
- Implemented logging systems which captured run details for over 50 data ingestion processes
Software Developer
Azavea
08.2016 - 08.2019
- Collaborated with teammates to develop distributed geospatial processing library in Scala
- Implemented features for data processing and ingesting at scale by utilizing Apache Spark, AWS S3, HDFS, and Apache Accumulo
- Ingested and analyzed over 10 TB of geospatial data using Apache Spark deployed on AWS EMR
- Lead development of API and deployment strategies for distributed Python library.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Geography and Urban
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA05.2016
Skills
- Apache Spark
- AWS EMR
- AWS EC2
- AWS S3
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Redshift
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Accomplishments
Co-presenter at the 2019 FOSS4G NA Conference
Co-Presented a demo showing how open source technology can be used to measure the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)s.
Speaker at the 2018 GeoPython Conference
Showcased an open source, geospatial, distributed Python library in real time using Jupyter and AWS EMR.
Languages
Python
Scala
Java
SQL
Timeline
Geospatial Engineering Consultant
Signature Commercial Solutions, LLC
04.2022 - 01.2025
Senior Data Engineer
Penn Interactive
01.2021 - 03.2022
Data Engineer
HealthVerity
10.2019 - 12.2020
Software Developer
Azavea
08.2016 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Geography and Urban
Temple University
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