Jamila Pittman
St. Louis,Missouri
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
18
18
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Data Engineer
Climate Corporation/Bayer
06.2023 - Current
- Created and configured reproducible custom compute cluster environments for team development, testing and support requests
- Updated CI/CD pipelines to be within security compliance standards set by organization
- Prepared documentation and analytic reports, delivering summarized results, analysis and conclusions to stakeholders.
- Evaluated emerging technologies and tools to identify opportunities for enhancing existing systems or creating new ones.
- Established standard procedures for version control, code review, deployment, and documentation to ensure consistency across the team's work products.
- Ensured data quality through rigorous testing, validation, and monitoring of all data assets, minimizing inaccuracies and inconsistencies.
Senior Lead Analyst
Wells Fargo
02.2023 - 06.2023
- Surfaced new data applications and reporting features within our Financial Forecasting Model Platform on linux systems with python
- Championed data literacy initiatives throughout the organization, empowering employees with the tools necessary to make informed decisions based on data insights.
- Automated and updated our model pipelines from legacy languages including Stata, SAS, Angular JS, PERL, and C++ to Python.
- Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment between analytical efforts and business objectives.
Senior Geospatial Data Engineer
Freight Science
05.2022 - 01.2023
- Creation of public endpoints using python and typescript for customer facing Freight Science UI
- Created private API endpoints for consumption by our Optimization AI model to enhance predictions for asset planning
- Development of a geospatial algorithm to predict if a trailer was tethered to a tractor
- First of its kind developed to be independent of the problematic source data system
- Reengineered existing ETL workflows to improve performance by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing code accordingly.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Created automated data pipelines transforming telemetric and sensor data for trailers
- Worked on implementing medallion lake house architecture, and strategy to create consistency in data across our platform
- PySpark scripting with DeltaTables for ML model training.
Cloud Geospatial Data Engineer
Syndicus /Bayer
02.2021 - 05.2022
- Lead Engineer of cross functional effort to stand up a production irrigation recommendation platform from an outside organization to our organization’s AWS account for testing and documentation, and enhancements
- Responsible for delivering project estimates for in and out of scope enhancements for AWS Irrigation Platform
- Achieved successful project outcomes by maintaining accurate documentation and meeting strict deadlines.
- Designing and deploying real-time data pipelines to process semi-structured data by integrating spatial data streaming from an Oracle Database using Confluent Kafka and stored processed data in Google BigQuery
- Creating Grafana dashboards using Kabana AWS EKS logs to track process status and send alerts to Microsoft Teams.
Data Science Engineer II
Centene
05.2019 - 02.2021
- Data engineer architecting and integrating the ML model pipelines used for predictive UI features on our new healthcare platform
- Created and maintained a python streaming application transforming unstructured data from Kafka event streams into user KPI’s for Leadership, Product Engineering, and Product Owners
- Architected DS Team’s Cloud bees Jenkins CI pipelines, ensuring the use of secure secrets management, unit testing, and linting strategies Developed architectural design and building foundations for the new Data Science initiative to facilitate CD machine learning workflows.
Designed Field Research Data Engineer
Climate Corporation/Bayer
10.2013 - 05.2019
- Led a team of 4 on the Designed Field Research Team (DFRT)
- My team was responsible for integration of data from multiple sources across our global organization into our prescribed field research pipeline
- Used Python and PySpark to ETL Avro, shapefiles, parquet, txt, json, tiff, and more geospatial data types
- Created a Big Data Framework and deployed tools to capture, transform, analyze and store structured and unstructured data in Postgres, and s3, and our Data Science Warehouse
- Orchestrated a strategy and schemas for migration from Google Sheets to POSTGRES Database
- Represented our team in multiple cross functional science teams to ensure successful integration of science models and experiments into the field research pipeline.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Urban Planning
Alabama A & M University
Normal, AL 08.2006 - 05.2024
Skills
Kafka Streaming
CI/CD
SQL
NoSQL
BigQuery
Argo
Data Pipeline Design
RDBMS
Self Motivation
Interpersonal Skills
Azure Cloud (DataBricks, Data Lakehouse)
AWS (Code Pipeline, Batch, Lambda, S3, RDS, EC2, Fargate, ECR, Dev Tools)
GCP
Kibana
DataDog
Grafana
Kubernetes
Docker
Linux
PySpark
Git
Typescript
Kafka Streaming
Accomplishments
- 2018 Presenter on Big Data Management at the 126th Annual Farmers Conference in Montgomery, AL.
- 2018 Facilitator of Information Technology at the 6th Annual Smart Girls Conference.
- 2018 Panelist on Artificial Intelligence and Agriculture- A Growing Opportunity for African Americans at the 48th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference.
Timeline
Senior Data Engineer
Climate Corporation/Bayer
06.2023 - Current
Senior Lead Analyst
Wells Fargo
02.2023 - 06.2023
Senior Geospatial Data Engineer
Freight Science
05.2022 - 01.2023
Cloud Geospatial Data Engineer
Syndicus /Bayer
02.2021 - 05.2022
Data Science Engineer II
Centene
05.2019 - 02.2021
Designed Field Research Data Engineer
Climate Corporation/Bayer
10.2013 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Urban Planning
Alabama A & M University
08.2006 - 05.2024