Trevon Terrence Walker

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Engineering Manager at Tandem Energy | ex-Spotify

Tandem Energy
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
14+ years experience
Georgia Tech
English
Advising
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Overview

I lead data pipelines at Tandem Energy in New York. Led the migration of 30 services to Iceberg. Before that: Spotify and BlackRock. Most at home with Snowflake and Python.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on data pipelines
  • Second opinions on PCI DSS decisions
  • Working sessions on Python
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
SnowflakeSQLPCI DSSPythonIcebergKafka
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: data pipelines and PCI DSS

Topics
data pipelines, Snowflake, SQL
Format
Calls
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

14 years of data pipelines. One call a month or async reviews.

New York, NY · remote OKsqlpci dsspython
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2022 - Present
    Tandem Energy · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Led the migration of 21 services to Iceberg.
    • Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 75 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 18% in two quarters.
  2. Data Engineer
    Nov 2020 - May 2022
    Spotify · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 3 weeks to 4 days.
    • Taught SQL to 122 non-analysts.
  3. Senior Data Engineer
    Apr 2017 - Nov 2020
    BlackRock · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  4. Data Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Apr 2017
    IBM · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 2 weeks to 4 days.
  5. Data Engineer
    Apr 2013 - Mar 2015
    Snap · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 2 weeks to 4 days.
    • Ran 270 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.

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Education

  1. Georgia Tech
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2008 - 2012

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