Erin Ward

Engineering Manager at Denholm Consulting · Kafka, Iceberg

Denholm Consulting

Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)

9+ years experience

Columbia University

English

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9 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Denholm Consulting, where I lead the data platform team. Led the migration of 18 services to SQL. Before that: Bank of America and Microsoft.

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KafkaIcebergAirflowCore DataSnowflakeSQL

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Building out data platform at Denholm Consulting: backend engineers wanted in Seattle

Role: Backend engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Remote within country
Compensation: $151k-$190k
Team: Data platform, 13 people
Start: Within a month
Must have: Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Comfort with ambiguity
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $169k-$238k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Seattle, WA · remote OKcore dataairflowsql

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Experience

Engineering Manager
Feb 2024 - Present
Denholm Consulting · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
- Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 863ms to 144ms.
Senior Data Engineer
Sep 2020 - Feb 2024
Bank of America · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Built the experimentation models now used in 12 product decisions a quarter.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Microsoft · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Ran 140 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
- Replaced 73 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
Data Engineer
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
PepsiCo · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Taught SQL to 173 non-analysts.
- Replaced 38 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

Columbia University
BA, Electrical Engineering
2013 - 2017

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