Summary
Brian Femiano is a senior data engineer with 13+ years of experience turning large data assets into actionable insights. He is currently a Senior Data Engineer at Apple, based in New York, shaping data platforms for scalable analytics. At Pandora (2017–2022) he led creators analytics, deploying Spark, GCP, Kafka and a polyglot stack including Java, Scala, Python, Golang, and Elixir. His career spans Magnetic, Sotera Defense Solutions, Booz Allen Hamilton and other teams, giving him hands-on experience with Hadoop/Spark pipelines, HBase/Accumulo storage, and distributed processing across industries. He coauthored Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook and maintains open-source work on bfemiano, reflecting a commitment to practical, production-ready data tooling. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from James Madison University.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Salisbury University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at James Madison University