Passionate Azure Data Engineer with 5 years of experience working on ETL/Data Pipelines and Data Visualization focused on creating more optimized data processing and data infrastructure by doing Azure Data Engineering development on the Azure Data Stack. 7 years total experience in data, 5 focused in Azure. 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: - Azure Data Factory - Azure Synapse Analytics - Python - Azure Databricks - SQL - Git - IDEs like Visual Studio Code and VIM - Linux Command Line (Bash and more) - Powershell Scripting - Power BI - Microsoft Fabric 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: - 📉 Rationalized 100s of Azure Data Factory pipelines into 10s via a custom configuration framework for a large cloud computing vendor. - 📉 Refactored a natural language processing job using Pyspark on Azure Databricks to run in minutes, not days. - 📉 Refactored a reporting process to make data available to stakeholders in 5 minutes instead of two days. - 👨🏼‍🏫 Co-created a Data Engineering Bootcamp to train up the next generation of Azure Data Engineers I'm excited about opportunities and challenges that allow me to leverage my experience and abilities with the Azure data ecosystem to build more effective and optimized data processing and infrastructure. I would love to connect to exchange ideas, or share more about my background. You can reach me here on LinkedIn or 📧 ryanbrownnetworking777@gmail.com