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Ken Odegard

@kenodegard

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Senior Data Solution Architect specializing in scalable ETL, big data, and cloud-native architectures.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior data role building cloud-native, real-time data platforms with strong data governance, team leadership, and ML integration.

I am a results-driven Senior Data Solution Architect with 11+ years designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data solutions across cloud platforms and big data ecosystems.

I have led end-to-end migrations to modern cloud data architectures, engineered 250+ ETL/ELT workflows, implemented real-time streaming (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis), and enforced enterprise data governance ensuring HIPAA and GDPR compliance.

I mentor cross-functional teams, integrate ML models into production on Databricks, and apply DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform) to drive measurable improvements in performance, cost, and reliability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Solution Architect

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Benchling

Oct 2022 - Present (3 years 5 months)

Architected and deployed real-time data streaming and cloud-native data architectures, reducing infrastructure costs 50% and improving pipeline uptime to 99.9% while increasing operational responsiveness by 35%.

Apache Kafka Apache Flink AWS Kinesis Snowflake Databricks ETL Data Governance Python

Senior Data Engineer

Expero

Aug 2019 - Sep 2022 (3 years 1 month)

Developed and optimized large-scale Hadoop and Spark pipelines and real-time analytics platforms, improving data processing speeds and enabling actionable insights for stakeholders.

Hadoop Spark Kafka Hive HDFS Apache NiFi Airflow Databricks

Data Engineer

AMN Healthcare

Jun 2017 - Jul 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Designed scalable ETL pipelines on GCP using Apache Beam and Dataflow and built a GCP data lake, reducing data discrepancies 40% and delivery time by 30%.

Apache Beam Google Cloud Dataflow GCP Python Great Expectations Data Lake ETL Data Modeling

ETL & Data Warehouse Engineer

Concertium

Oct 2015 - May 2017 (1 year 7 months)

Designed and maintained ETL pipelines and dimensional data warehouse solutions using Talend and SSIS, enabling cloud migrations and improving reporting performance for healthcare and financial analytics.

Talend SSIS Apache NiFi Dimensional Reporting Tableau Power BI AWS

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Rice University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2011 - 2015

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science completed at Rice University between 2011 and 2015, focused on core computer science principles and practical software development.