Charlie Horricks

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Adam - Senior Full-Stack Python Engineer - ID:AS1410

Status: Active
Location: New Orleans
Basic salary: $170k
Exp. years: 5
Specialisms: Python, Django, Terraform, React, AWS, Spark, Lambdas
Overview:

A business focused software engineer with over 6 years’ experience in backend development. Has experienced culture in early start-ups and also accomplished scaleups such as Uber.

Key Highlights

  • Led and implemented the rebuild of the client data ingestion pipeline to be event-driven using AWS Lambda, removing the need for human involvement.
  • Was the primary interface between executive management and data engineering. Leveraged Spark and Hadoop using SQL and HiveQL to successfully transform distributed datasets generated from over 2 billion API requests per day to drive product innovation.
  • Took ownership and built a custom API client in Python to parse XML fraud data, increasing correctly identified fraud by over 40%.
  • Oversaw a 6-person remote team to develop two software products from ideation to a working prototype in less than 5 months.
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