Wesley Gordon Kobayashi

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Senior Data Engineer at Corvid Software · Data pipelines · Kafka, Iceberg

Corvid Software
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
7+ years experience
Ohio State University
English
Open to work
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Overview

Senior Data Engineer at Corvid Software, focused on data pipelines. Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 25% in two quarters. Moved 83% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: DoorDash and Oracle. Most at home with Iceberg and Python. Learning woodworking.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in demand forecasting
  • Working sessions on Iceberg
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about demand forecasting
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Offshore staffing offers
Skills
SparkPythondbtIcebergKafka
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Data Engineer in creator tools, Chicago or hybrid

Target roles
Data Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Consumer apps, Logistics
Work mode
On-site
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the IL
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns forecasting end to end.
Not interested in
Crypto

7 years in data pipelines. Strongest at Python and dbt. Available from next month.

Chicago, IL · remote OKsparkkafkadbt
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Data Engineer
    Sep 2022 - Present
    Corvid Software · 4 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Taught SQL to 141 non-analysts.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Cut forecast error from 35% to 12% across 831 SKUs.
  2. Data Engineer
    May 2021 - Sep 2022
    DoorDash · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Cut forecast error from 23% to 9% across 3992 SKUs.
    • Reduced stock-outs by 20% in the first season.
  3. Data Engineer
    Oct 2019 - May 2021
    Oracle · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Cut forecast error from 29% to 8% across 1162 SKUs.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2025

Built with Iceberg and dbt. 1063 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Ohio State University
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    2014 - 2018

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