Emilio Gomez

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VP of Engineering · Data pipelines · Kafka

Inlet Studio
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
16+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English, Mandarin
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Inlet Studio, focused on data pipelines. Shipped 17 launches on the data platform team without a rollback. Before that: Snap and Pinterest. Most at home with Python and Iceberg. I write a small newsletter about data pipelines.

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Skills
IcebergKafkaPythondbtSpark
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Building out data platform at Inlet Studio: frontend engineers wanted in New York

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$140k-$202k
Team
Data platform, 8 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $178k-$226k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

New York, NYsparkkafkapython
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Inlet Studio · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 30% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
    Snap · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 37 a week to 1.
    • Shipped 7 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
  3. Staff Data Engineer
    Feb 2017 - Aug 2020
    Pinterest · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Taught SQL to 33 non-analysts.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2014 - Feb 2017
    Twilio · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Led the migration of 43 services to dbt.
    • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 28 a week to 3.
  5. Data Engineer
    Oct 2010 - Mar 2014
    Pfizer · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Taught SQL to 118 non-analysts.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    1996 - 2000

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