Summary
Steven Carpenter is a senior data engineer who has spent the past nine years building scalable data platforms and streaming infrastructures across cloud-native environments. Based in Arvada, Colorado, he currently serves as Senior Data Engineer at Lumin Digital, driving data capabilities to support real-time analytics and decisioning. At Fanatics, he led migrations of Spark workloads to Kubernetes on AWS EMR, built internal frameworks around Spark and Kafka Streams, and delivered a 70% reduction in cloud compute costs while improving resource utilization. His work spans from enterprise Data Lakes and ETL pipelines with Airflow at Ibotta to near-petabyte scale Snowflake architectures for network traffic analytics and automated Airflow deployments at Slalom. He blends DevSecOps with data engineering, shepherding Terraform ownership, IAM governance, and multi-account networking, and has mentored teams through complex data product initiatives. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder.
10 years of coding experience