Sebastian Richards

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Engineering Manager at Anchor HQ · SQL, dbt

Anchor HQ
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
12+ years experience
Columbia University
English
Hiring
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Overview

12 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Anchor HQ, where I lead the data platform team. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Moved 74% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Google and Stripe. Most at home with Iceberg and Python. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Skills
IcebergdbtPythonSQLAirflow
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Looking for a data engineer who has worked on SQL at scale

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$138k-$180k + equity
Team
Data platform, 13 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $210k-$231k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Anchor HQ · 4 yr · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 505ms to 135ms.
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Data Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
    Google · 2 yr 7 mo · Contract · Chicago, IL
    • Replaced 40 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. Data Engineer
    May 2018 - Mar 2020
    Stripe · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Replaced 48 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Data Engineer
    Jan 2015 - May 2018
    Target · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Replaced 75 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. Columbia University
    BA, Computer Science
    2009 - 2013

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