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Ken Danny

@kendanny

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Senior data engineer focused on real-time data platforms, DataOps, and reliable analytics at scale.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead reliable, real-time data platforms—owning ingestion, transformation, and serving—while using DataOps, automated quality checks, and governance to cut latency and eliminate on-call surprises on AWS/Snowflake.

I’m a Senior Data Engineer with eleven years of experience across fintech, logistics, and SaaS, moving teams from batch pipelines to event-driven architectures that process billions of records daily. I build the “pipeline nobody pages about at 2 AM,” improving latency from 4 hours to under 90 seconds and maintaining 99.97% pipeline uptime with automated data quality using Great Expectations.

I established DataOps with Airflow, Terraform, and GitHub Actions—using blue-green deployments to keep scheduler uptime at 99.97% while cutting recovery time dramatically. I’ve engineered lakehouse transformation layers with dbt (420 models), architected real-time streaming with Kafka/Flink/Spark/Delta Lake, migrated Redshift to Snowflake, and driven governance (PII classification, column-level lineage, access policies) to achieve SOC 2 compliance 6 weeks ahead of schedule.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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Intellinestsystems

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Led an enterprise data platform serving 90 internal analytics consumers and 14 production ML models, reducing end-to-end data latency from 4 hours to 90 seconds for 3.2B daily events. Built the dbt transformation layer with 420 models (bronze/silver/gold) and automated data-quality checks in Great Expectations, maintaining 99.97% pipeline uptime over 18 months.

AWS Snowflake Apache Kafka Apache Flink Apache Spark Delta Lake DBT Great Expectations Terraform Apache Airflow

Data Engineer

Palantir Technologies

May 2018 - Dec 2021 (3 years 7 months)

Built and maintained data integration pipelines for 6 government and commercial clients, processing classified and sensitive datasets from 500M to 12B records using Spark on Foundry. Developed a reusable PySpark pipeline framework that standardized ingestion and schema evolution, reducing pipeline development time by 60%.

Pyspark Snowflake Scala SQL Data Pipelines And Schema Evolution Data Reconciliation

Data Engineer

Optum Health

Aug 2014 - Apr 2018 (3 years 8 months)

Developed HIPAA-compliant ETL pipelines on Hadoop and Hive processing 800M daily clinical and claims events from 14 provider networks for population health and risk-adjustment analytics. Migrated a healthcare warehouse from Teradata to AWS Redshift (14TB, 220 tables) and replaced 150 cron scripts with Airflow, cutting pipeline incident response time by 70%.