Erik Robinson
@erikrobinson
Senior Data Engineer driving reliable, scalable data platforms for analytics and ML.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior Analytics & Data Engineer with 10+ years building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, real-time streaming architectures, and analytics platforms at top-tier companies including Netflix, Google, and Dow. I focus on data modeling, pipeline reliability, metric standardization, and privacy-first delivery to enable data-driven decision-making and faster experimentation cycles.
My work spans architecting high-throughput ingestion and lakehouse optimizations, implementing data quality, lineage and governance controls, and shipping reusable transformation layers and feature delivery systems that reduce latency, defects, and manual QA while improving stakeholder confidence in metrics.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
NELed development of real-time personalization and analytics platforms using Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, and Delta Lake on AWS, boosting viewer engagement by 19% and cutting processing latency by 35%. Implemented data quality, governance, and privacy controls that reduced production defects by 42% and audit workload by 30%.
GOBuilt reusable semantic layers, standardized metrics frameworks, and dashboards with BigQuery, dbt, and Looker that accelerated campaign reporting by 45% and centralized KPIs across marketing, finance, and product. Automated anomaly detection with BigQuery ML and Airflow, cutting manual QA time by 70%.
GODeveloped scalable ETL pipelines with Dataflow, BigQuery, and Python, improving dashboard responsiveness by 40% and establishing governed metric definitions via dbt tests and LookML to enable self-service reporting. Consolidated advertiser data into curated marts for faster analyst access.
Data Analyst
Dow
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year)
Automated procurement analytics and built Tableau dashboards and SQL Server reports that revealed savings and efficiency opportunities, contributing to a 12% reduction in transportation and supplier costs and a 7% reduction in raw material waste.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
UMUniversity of Michigan
Bachelor of Science, Industrial and Operations Engineering
2010 - 2014
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering with coursework focused on operations research, systems engineering, and process optimization.
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