Susan Gardner

Overview

Senior Data Engineer at Brightline Solutions, focused on data pipelines. Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 39 a week to 3. Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 545ms to 88ms. Before that: Snap and Databricks. Most at home with Iceberg and Kafka. I read too many books about cities.

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Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer

   Jan 2025 - Present
   Brightline Solutions · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Reduced stock-outs by 22% in the first season.
   • Built the forecasting models now used in 12 product decisions a quarter.
2. Data Engineer

   Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
   Snap · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Replaced 51 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
   • Cut forecast error from 30% to 6% across 3953 SKUs.
3. Data Engineer

   Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
   Databricks · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Replaced 116 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
4. Data Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
   American Express · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Education

1. Purdue University

   BS, Computer Science
   2014 - 2018