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Roman Taranov

Jersey City,NJ

Summary

Experienced Data Engineer with a passion for creating data more accessible and valuable for analysts and business units. Reliable candidate ready to take on challenges in a position using problem-solving and task prioritization skills to help the team succeed.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Platform Developer / Platform Architect

Nitka
04.2022 - Current
  • Developed, improved and maintained data platform services for data engineering pipelines using Databricks
  • Developed scalable FastAPI Python application that handles data export operations to destinations for company clients, which led to improvement of pipelines preparation speed - from 3 days to 20 minutes.
  • Conducted demos for internal users on developed services
  • Conducted code reviews for fellow platform developers and data engineers
  • Consulted incoming users on Data Platform services and helped them to onboard
  • Documented changes and prepared user guides for new users

Lead Data Engineer

ONE Technologies LLP
09.2021 - 04.2022
  • Created and maintained data pipelines using open-source tools (Apache Airflow, Python);
  • Refactored old code base resulting in SQL scripts execution time reduced average by 50%;
  • Set up CI/CD processes with GitLab;
  • Developed services such as parsers, and consumers for RabbitMQ and Kafka
  • Implemented new Data Warehouse architecture based on data-vault methodology (PostgreSQL);
  • Coached junior and middle data engineers;

Data Engineer

Alfa-Bank
06.2020 - 08.2021
  • Transferred old pipelines from Informatica, created and maintained data pipelines using Airflow
  • Developed services using python, which led to reduction of manual job and automated reporting;
  • Merged data and recreated legacy pipelines with Apache Hadoop, Spark and Ni-Fi, which improved speed of data processing by 90%;
  • Developed SQL scripts and packages for SAP Business Objects;
  • Led data engineering team members;

Senior Data Miner

Kaspi.kz
10.2017 - 06.2020
  • Created analytic reports and A/B tests using SAS EG;
  • Created data marts using SAS EG, Google BigQuery, Oracle Pl/SQL;
  • Created marketing campaign segments using advanced analytics (SAS Miner & Python for creating models like decision trees, item based recommendations);

Database QA Engineer

Kaspi.kz
08.2016 - 10.2017
  • Developed and executed test cases to ensure software meets its specifications
  • Identified and reported bugs and issues
  • Created and maintained test data and test environments
  • Performed manual and automated testing on different platforms

Education

Master of Computer Science - Almaty

Turan University
Almaty, Kazakhstan
06.2018

Bachelor of Computer Science - Almaty

AUPET
Almaty, Kazakhstan
06.2016

Skills

  • Apache Airflow
  • PySpark
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Kafka
  • SQL
  • AWS
  • Data Warehouse
  • GitLab
  • Agile
  • MySQL
  • Databricks

Certification

Apache Spark Programming with Databricks
Data Engineering by OTUS
Data Scientist Career Track - DataCamp

Additional Information

  • Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Timeline

Platform Developer / Platform Architect

Nitka
04.2022 - Current

Lead Data Engineer

ONE Technologies LLP
09.2021 - 04.2022

Data Engineer

Alfa-Bank
06.2020 - 08.2021

Senior Data Miner

Kaspi.kz
10.2017 - 06.2020

Database QA Engineer

Kaspi.kz
08.2016 - 10.2017

Master of Computer Science - Almaty

Turan University

Bachelor of Computer Science - Almaty

AUPET
Roman Taranov