Terrence Jerome Gaines

Senior Data Engineer at Walmart · Data pipelines

Walmart

Nashville, TN · CT (UTC-6)

4+ years experience

Rhode Island School of Design

English

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Overview

Currently at Walmart, where I work on data pipelines. Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 21% in two quarters. Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 37 a week to 1. Most at home with dbt and Snowflake. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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SQLSnowflakeAirflowdbt

Experience

Senior Data Engineer
Dec 2022 - Present
Walmart · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
- Taught SQL to 58 non-analysts.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Conference talk: lessons from product analytics

2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling product analytics.

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Education

Rhode Island School of Design
BFA, Computer Science
2017 - 2021

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