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Amanda Crawford-Adamo

Amanda Crawford-Adamo

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Senior Data Engineer

Freelancer | Charlotte, NC

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Insights curator, unlocking the power of data for strategic advantage.

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Advanced Git

3 hr12 Videos38 Exercises2,451 Learners

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Advanced Git

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Advanced Git

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Git Fundamentals

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My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Dropbox | Oct 2021 - May 2024

Senior Data Engineer

Led the architecture and development of a new financial data warehouse and model to service financial business metrics around DocSend's product. Leveraging Stripe, Airflow, FiveTran, and Snowflake, the system replaced ChartMogul as the financial reporting tool. Developed strategies that significantly improved data quality monitoring and observability, enhancing overall data reliability
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Karat | Jun 2021 - Aug 2022

Interview Engineer

Conducted technical coding interviews and coaching for candidates, focusing on enhancing their problem-solving and technical skills. Played a critical role in shaping the technical acumen of aspiring software professionals through detailed evaluations and constructive feedback.

Microsoft | Mar 2020 - Oct 2021

Software Engineer

Played a key role in the modernization and redesign of Microsoft's financial data warehouse and revenue reporting system, contributing significantly to the project's success. Utilized advanced technologies and methodologies to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of data warehousing and reporting processes. Actively involved in integrating a new business into Microsoft's complex financial system, ensuring seamless data ingestion and alignment with existing financial structures and protocols.

Trilogy Education | Dec 2019 - Nov 2020

Data Analytics Bootcamp Teaching Assistant at University of North Carolina Charlotte

Mentored students in data analysis and machine learning, utilizing tools like Excel, Python, Pandas, Numpy, R, and Tableau in a dynamic classroom setting. Facilitated the development of students’ analytical skills, preparing them for real-world data challenges.

BrightHive | May 2019 - Mar 2020

Software Engineer

Build and deploy ETL pipelines and data infrastructure to enable organizations, networks, and communities to share and access their data responsibly. Responsible for building reusable data application tools for data warehouses via dag based ETL workflows using Python, SQL, Airflow, Dagster, Pandas, Numpy, SqlAlchelmy, Postgres, and AWS that ensures high quality and available data. Key Accomplishments: • Built open source data ingestion platform for a collaborative educational data warehouse based on multiple disjoint data sources using Python, Dagster, Apache Airflow, and AWS and data base modelling techniques. • Establishing unified data pipeline and ETL infrastructure development process and documented strategies aimed at promoting data pipeline quality and performance.

Coursera | Nov 2019 - Feb 2020

Udacity Deep Learning Bertelsmann Trainee

Scholarship recipient of the Bertelsmann Udacity Deep Learning scholarship.

Magic Leap | Jan 2019 - May 2019

Software Quality Engineer

Develop test automation tools and strategy plans for big data applications that reduced test execution time and that automatically identfied P0 and P1 defects. Validated data quality using tools such as Selenium Webdriver, Amazon DynamoDB, Cucumber, JavaScript, Scala, and Python for business intelligence ETL platform. Analyze business requirement to develop test plans using BDD Gherkin format.

University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information | Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

Graduate Research Assistant

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Magic Leap | May 2018 - Aug 2018

Software Quality Engineer Intern

Developed tools that automated randomized parameterized edge and boundary testing for front end web applications for using NodeJS, Selenium and Cucumber which identified P0 and P1 defects reducing manual testing. Documented test case generation methods for front-end and API testing. Relevant Skills: Automated Testing, Selenium, Webdriver, NodeJS, Cucumber, DevOps, and Software Testing Principles: UI Testing, Boundary Value Analysis, Randomized Testing, API Testing, System Testing, and Exploratory Testing

University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information | Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

Commonwealth Scholar Graduate Student Assistant

• Plan and organize social events that promote diversity and equity within the School of Computing and Information. • Provide support in recruitment efforts through information session presentations and answering student inquiries through email and social media accounts. • Assist admissions committee in processing applications and documents for prospective students.

AT&T | May 2016 - Aug 2017

Specialist Software Engineer

Software Engineer focusing on creating customer facing and backed infrastructure emerging technology at AT&T lead by the agile and DevOps methodology. • Contributed to the development of MVC front end web application user interfaces using HTML5, JSP, Javascript, NodeJS and CSS to deliver critical e-commerce portfolio features in a rapid pace environment. • Lead multiple development teams along with the responsibility of providing personalized training to new hire developers and interns. •Proactively support and maintain crossing platforms for production releases including errors analysis, debugging, code-fixes.

AT&T | Jun 2014 - Apr 2016

Associate Software Engineer-Technology Development Program Emerging Technolgies

Software Engineer focusing on creating customer-facing and backed infrastructure emerging technology at AT&T lead by the agile and DevOps methodology. • Contributed to the development of MVC front end web application user interfaces using HTML5, JSP, Javascript, NodeJS and CSS to deliver critical e-commerce portfolio features in a rapid pace environment. • Lead multiple development teams along with the responsibility of providing personalized training to new hire developers and interns. •Proactively support and maintain crossing platforms for production releases including errors analysis, debugging, code-fixes.

Connecticut College | May 2013 - May 2014

Keck Undergraduate Science Program (KUSP)

• Conducted research focusing on developing educational mobile applications using culturally relevant teaching methodologies. • Implemented original ideas and plans to create and presented summer research at a research poster session • Mentored local area middle school girls on studying computer science topics and concepts

The Posse Foundation | Jan 2010 - May 2014

Posse Chicago Scholar - Connecticut College Posse 2 Cohort

• Received immersive training in the areas of team building and group support, cross-cultural communication, leadership, and academic excellence over the course of two years • Facilitated controversial panel discussions around race, gender and other social topics amongst peers at Connecticut College • One of 86 Scholars competitively selected out of a pool of 2,100 applicants0 applicants

Corporation for National and Community Service | Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

AmeriCorp Vista Summer Associate- CCAC

• Served as a Teacher/Counselor for 120+ urban middle school youths at Camp Rotary Summer Camp funded by The Rotary Club of New London • Assisted in the supervision of groups of 30+ middle school youth and coordinating immersive science and environmental related curricula activities.

My Education

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Master of Science, Computer ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information | 2018
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer ScienceConnecticut College | 2014

About Me

Amanda Crawford-Adamo

Amanda is an experienced software and data engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in version control, particularly Git, applied across software development and data engineering projects. Amanda's expertise spans from her time at tech giants like Dropbox and Microsoft to her current role as a freelance consultant and educator. She holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

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