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Henry Dean

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Senior Engineering Manager at BlackRock | ex-Procter & Gamble

Works at
BlackRock
Location
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
13+ years experience
Education
Rhode Island School of Design
Languages
English
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Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at BlackRock, focused on data pipelines. Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion. Grew the data platform team from 3 to 22 engineers. Before that: Procter & Gamble and PayPal. Most at home with Iceberg and Kafka. Coffee nerd.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Questions about data pipelines
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
dbtKafkaAirflowIceberg

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2025 - Present
    BlackRock · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Built the experimentation framework 30 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Led the migration of 47 services to Kafka.
  2. Senior Data Engineer
    Aug 2024 - Oct 2025
    Procter & Gamble · 1 yr 2 mo · Contract · New York, NY
    • Replaced 76 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2020 - Aug 2024
    PayPal · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 25% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Senior Data Engineer
    Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
    Accenture · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Taught SQL to 140 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 72 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  5. Data Engineer
    Jul 2013 - Mar 2017
    HP · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Taught SQL to 75 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 26 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Data pipelines benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Kafka and dbt on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from data platform
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling data pipelines.

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Education

  1. Rhode Island School of Design
    BFA, Mathematics
    2008 - 2012

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