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Michael Huckabay

@michaelhuckabay

Principal Data Engineer specializing in streaming platforms, cloud data architecture, and modern data stack implementations.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role designing and operating scalable, real-time data platforms where I can lead streaming architecture, improve data quality, and mentor teams within a collaborative, outcome-driven environment.

I am a Principal Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and operating high-throughput streaming data platforms and end-to-end data solutions across Databricks, AWS, Azure, and the Modern Data Stack. I architect scalable data pipelines, implement Medallion and Data Vault modeling patterns, and build robust CI/CD and observability practices to deliver reliable, low-latency data products that drive business value.

I have led migrations from batch to streaming, reduced costs and latency, and built Serverless APIs, Terraform-managed infrastructure, and automated dbt deployment pipelines. I prioritize data quality, governance, and cross-team collaboration, and I enjoy mentoring teams to adopt best practices for testing, monitoring, and repeatable data engineering workflows.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Principal Data Engineer

Current

DoorDash

Jan 2018 - Present (7 years 11 months)

Architected and operated high-throughput streaming data pipelines using Databricks Autoloader and PySpark, migrated legacy batch ETL to streaming reducing costs 25% and report latency 75%, and maintained 99.9% uptime through Datadog monitoring and Terraform-managed infrastructure.

Databricks Pyspark DBT AWS S3 Terraform Datadog Azure Pipelines Data Modeling

Full-Stack Developer

Twilio

Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years)

Built near-real-time data pipelines with Kafka and deployed high-availability services on GCP using Docker/Kubernetes, improved query performance with Python and SQL, and implemented ETL packages and testing frameworks to ensure data integrity.

Kafka Docker Kubernetes GCP Python SQL SSIS REST APIs Data Modeling

Junior Developer

BigCommerce

Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years)

Contributed to core e-commerce backend features with Python and JavaScript, implemented CI/CD basics, and developed automated ETL scripts and tests to improve data availability and quality for business reporting.