Kyle Shannon
Data & Analytics Engineering Lead
Hoboken,NJ
Summary
Highly motivated Data Engineering Lead with a strong background in Software Engineering, Data & Analytics Leadership. Genuine love for all things data, learning and improving every day. Always looking for new ways to extract value out existing and future data. Coach and mentor for analysts and engineers.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior/Lead Analytics Engineer
SeatGeek
07.2021 - Current
- First Analytics Engineer Hire to bridge gap between Data Platform and Data Analytics/Science.
- Modeled data for CDP activation enabling personalization which improved engagement by 20%.
- Scaled warehouse performance for self-service growth of 3x
- Partnered with engineering to build foundational modeling to connect disparate parts of the business in streaming and batch implementations.
- Setup Ci/CD best practices for analytics deployments.
- Lead recruitment & hiring of 6+ analytics engineers.
Data Engineering Lead
TeePublic - Acquired by Redbubble
01.2018 - 07.2021
- Established modern ELT data stack on Redshift & dbt, later migrating to Snowflake.
- Scaled marketing product feeds from 5 to 450 million skus responsible for 40% of revenue focused on international expansion.
- Build and maintain cross-functional data pipelines including product, marketing, analytics & machine learning.
- Architect cross-cloud solutions to work with external Data Scientists & marketers.
- Implement on-site events from application, etl and data modeling for enhanced ecommerce & product.
- Mentor engineers and analysts on data design, modeling and pipeline development.
Senior Software Engineer
TeePublic
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Architected and administered Salesforce with ETL for 10+ growth team members in management and sales automating communications & nurture campaigns doubling community outreach volume.
- Built ad-hoc analysis framework leveraging materialized views setting up companies first BI tool.
Senior Software Engineer
BustedTees
01.2012 - 01.2015
- Responsible for managing scalability during peak/holiday times.
- Migrated all site assets from external CDN to S3.
- Lead Migration of EC2 to RDS servers.
Manager of Web and Salesforce Applications
New Leaders
01.2009 - 01.2012
- Lead on all Salesforce custom development and integrations with internal talent and external consultants.
- Worked with multiple internal department heads to gather and scope needs for these solutions across 10+ different national locations.
- Technical lead for implementing secure video based LMS (Learning Management System) used by 1600+ clients.
E-Commerce Developer/Consultant
Originet Solutions, IBS
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Lead team of frontend and backend developers, internal and external, with strict deadlines and custom made QA guidelines.
- Manage 200+ projects from start to finish.
Education
Big Data With Amazon Cloud, Hadoop/Spark & Docker
NYC Data Science Academy
New York, NY 04.2019 - 07.2019
Associate of Arts - Recording Arts
Full Sail University
WInter Park, FL 09.2006 - 10.2007
Associate of Science - Computer Science
Brookdale Community College
Lincroft, NJ 09.2004 - 05.2006
Skills
AWS, GCP & Snowflake Cloud Infrastructure
Team Leadership, Mentoring, Data Modeling & Product Development
Tools: dbt, Git/Gitlab, Airflow, Kafka, Docker, Flink, Spark, Hadoop, Hive
Languages: SQL, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java & JavaScript
Certification
Apache Airflow Fundamentals
Timeline
Senior/Lead Analytics Engineer
SeatGeek
07.2021 - Current
Apache Airflow Fundamentals
03-2021
Big Data With Amazon Cloud, Hadoop/Spark & Docker
NYC Data Science Academy
04.2019 - 07.2019
Data Engineering Lead
TeePublic - Acquired by Redbubble
01.2018 - 07.2021
Senior Software Engineer
TeePublic
01.2015 - 01.2018
Senior Software Engineer
BustedTees
01.2012 - 01.2015
Salesforce Certified Developer
11-2011
Manager of Web and Salesforce Applications
New Leaders
01.2009 - 01.2012
E-Commerce Developer/Consultant
Originet Solutions, IBS
01.2007 - 01.2009
Associate of Arts - Recording Arts
Full Sail University
09.2006 - 10.2007
Associate of Science - Computer Science
Brookdale Community College
09.2004 - 05.2006