Brock Donovan

Data Direct Engineering Lead
Pacifica, CA | (847)-309-2192 | brockdonovan@gmail.com
LinkedIn | GitHub

Skills & Education

Education
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, B.S. Electrical Engineering, May 2008
Programming
Python, SQL, Bash
Infrastructure
Airflow, Docker, GCP, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Harness)
Databases
Snowflake, BigQuery, PySpark, Databricks, DBT, Postgres, MSSQL
Data Viz
Tableau, Looker, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib

Experience

Data Direct Engineering Lead July 2021 - Present
dv01

dv01 is a financial technology data management, reporting & analytics platform offering loan-level transparency and insight into lending markets.

  • Lead inter-departmental team for Data Direct product line
  • Manage team of 4
  • Design and maintain data feeds for some of the largest banks and hedge funds in the world
  • Manage costs of cloud infrastructure (decreased cost by 24%)
  • Plan and lead data product feature rollouts: Snowflake implementation & cloud sharing, maintain feature parity with web app and work with sales team on product pricing and support
Senior Data Engineer July 2020 - July 2021
dv01
  • Work with data pipeline and business teams to plan, scope, and develop new, scalable features
  • Lead product migration from MSSQL Server to BigQuery
  • Decrease pipeline write time by 40% by leveraging BigQuery and Python
  • Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and new hires
Data Engineer July 2019 - July 2020
dv01
  • Evolve the Data offering from one-off custom build to a full product that meets any client's needs
  • Build and maintain data pipelines including Airflow DAGs, Jenkins jobs, & automated testing
  • Lead client meetings, on call and support. Create documentation and marketing from scratch
  • Work with consultants to improve our product
Manager, Analytics and Insights April 2017 - July 2019
Major League Soccer
  • Create data pipeline which in turn powered Tableau insights dashboards and ad hoc user and content analysis
  • Work with sales and marketing teams to enable data-driven decision making
Data Analyst March 2016 - April 2017
Orchard Platform

Orchard was a provider of tech and analytics to the marketplace lending industry.

  • Create both client reports and internal tools using Shiny & Flask to share insights and enable client services, sales, marketing and data science teams to monitor and investigate data
Digital Analytics Manager October 2013 - March 2016
Organizing for Action

OFA is a nonprofit 501c4 that advocates for the agenda of President Barack Obama. OFA maintains his digital resources: barackobama.com, @barackobama, email list, etc.

  • Harness data insights for social media accounts that reach over 65 million people and an email list of millions of supporters
  • Monitor & report on website activity and campaign performance

Presenter - Analytics Institute Yearly Conference 2015

Graduate Appointment Aug 2012 - Aug 2013
University of Illinois at Chicago - School of Public Health
  • Data analysis & visualization for School of Public Health. Results published in PLOS ONE
Senior Systems Engineer Oct 2008 - Aug 2012
Motorola Solutions Inc.
  • Implemented software and hardware upgrades to multimillion-dollar digital radio systems