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Brandon Porter

@brandonporter

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I build reliable enterprise data platforms and distributed Spark pipelines for regulated healthcare systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and operate reliable enterprise data platforms, particularly distributed processing systems for regulated environments, where I can own ingestion, workflow reliability, performance tuning, governance, and production operations.

At EPAM Systems, I own Scala and Spark application frameworks for regulated encounter-style data processing, building resilient batch pipelines with idempotent ingestion, schema governance, and operational runbooks.

I implement Drools rule services for evolving business and regulatory logic, and design ingestion for master data and source files with validation, deduplication, referential integrity checks, error quarantines, and lineage preservation. I also optimize Spark, Hive, and SQL workloads through partitioning, skew mitigation, file sizing, explain plans, and statistics management.

Previously at Meridian Capital Group, I developed full-stack applications, RESTful services, data synchronization utilities, secure APIs, and CI pipelines for financial workflows.

At Healthee, I built healthcare web applications and back-end integrations, partnering with clinicians and operations teams. I reduced end-to-end processing time by 35% through targeted query and service optimizations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Data Engineer

Current

EPAM Systems

Jul 2022 - Present (4 years 1 month)

Owned Scala and Spark application framework for regulated encounter-style data processing, implementing resilient batch pipelines with idempotent ingestion and schema governance. Implemented Drools rule services for business and regulatory logic, and managed production operations for Cloudera components.

Scala Apache Spark Apache Hive HDFS Yarn Cloudera Drools Data Ingestion SQL Git Jenkins REST APIs Docker Kubernetes AWS

Full Stack Developer

Meridian Capital Group

Jun 2019 - Jun 2022 (3 years)

Developed and maintained full-stack applications supporting financial workflows using modern web frameworks, RESTful services, and database layers. Integrated back-end data access patterns with scalable query design and built secure API endpoints with authentication controls.

Full Stack REST APIs SQL ETL Authentication Authorization CI CD Git Agile Jira Confluence

Software Engineer

Healthee

Sep 2014 - May 2019 (4 years 8 months)

Built and shipped web applications and internal tooling, translating product requirements into maintainable code with robust data handling. Implemented back-end services and integrations supporting healthcare workflows, and optimized query logic to reduce end-to-end processing time by 35%.

Web Development SQL Database Design CI CD Error Handling Monitoring