Kathleen Becker

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Staff Data Engineer at Lyft | ex-ServiceNow

Lyft
Raleigh, NC · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English
Co-founder
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Overview

Currently at Lyft, where I work on data pipelines. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 6. Most at home with Iceberg and Spark. I mentor students through university programmes.

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Skills
PythonSQLKafkaIcebergSpark
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Looking for a technical co-founder for clinical documentation for mid-market retailers

The idea
Clinical documentation for mid-market retailers
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in demand forecasting
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Raleigh or remote

I bring 14 years of data pipelines (currently Lyft). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Raleigh, NCicebergpythonspark
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Experience

  1. Staff Data Engineer
    Jun 2024 - Present
    Lyft · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Taught SQL to 140 non-analysts.
    • Built the forecasting models now used in 11 product decisions a quarter.
  2. Data Engineer
    Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
    ServiceNow · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Cut forecast error from 30% to 9% across 1110 SKUs.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 5.
  4. Data Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
    Instacart · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Replaced 37 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  5. Data Engineer
    May 2015 - Oct 2017
    Verizon · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Replaced 104 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    2008 - 2012

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