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@jamesdolan
I am a Senior Data Engineer specializing in real-time streaming, fraud detection, and multi-cloud platforms.
United StatesI am a Senior Data Engineer with over 10 years building large-scale, real-time data systems across fintech, social media, and gaming. I design resilient streaming architectures and ETL pipelines using Kafka, Spark, Azure and GCP to drive low-latency insights.
At SAS I led fraud-detection pipelines processing billions of transactions with sub-second latency and improved detection accuracy by 25%; at Facebook I scaled Kafka and Dataflow pipelines to handle roughly 2 billion daily interactions and reduced model latency by ~40%. I partner closely with data scientists to deliver feature pipelines, improve observability, and ensure regulatory compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2).
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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
SILed creation of real-time transaction ingestion pipelines processing over 10 million transactions daily with sub-second latency, enhancing SAS Fraud Management. Designed resilient streaming frameworks that cut data processing times by 30% and developed 150+ ETL pipelines supporting 50+ predictive models, improving fraud detection accuracy 25% and reducing false positives 20%.
FMFacebook (Meta)
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021 (5 years)
Spearheaded design and scaling of 50+ Kafka pipelines delivering roughly 2 billion daily interactions on GCP and integrated Protobuf/Thrift event logs from 100+ services. Architected Flink and Spark streaming solutions and feature pipelines with Dataflow and BigQuery to reduce model latency ~40% and boost engagement ~15%, while implementing GDPR-compliant data controls.
EABuilt high-volume Kafka and RabbitMQ ingestion pipelines and real-time analytics with Apache Storm to process gameplay telemetry for global franchises, supporting millions of concurrent players. Developed SQL-based ETL and behavioral feature pipelines to improve matchmaking and retention modeling for live game tuning.
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
UFBachelor of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2014
Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the University of Florida from August 2010 to September 2014.
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