Brooks Jenkins

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Data Engineer, Unity Learning - Airflow · dbt · Iceberg

Unity Learning
Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)
1+ years experience
Virginia Tech
English
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Overview

I've spent 1 years on data pipelines, now at Unity Learning. Grew the data platform team from 4 to 32 engineers. Shipped 26 launches on the data platform team without a rollback. Most at home with Kafka and Airflow.

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Skills
SparkIcebergAirflowKafkadbt

Experience

  1. Data Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Unity Learning · 1 yr · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Taught SQL to 167 non-analysts.
    • Cut forecast error from 24% to 10% across 3862 SKUs.
    • Reduced stock-outs by 30% in the first season.

Projects

Open-source Kafka toolkit
2026

A small library for demand forecasting that 529 developers star on GitHub.

Demand forecasting benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Kafka and Iceberg on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Virginia Tech
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2020 - 2024

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