Alex Lordthorsen
Senior Data Ops Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Lordthorsen is a Senior Data Ops Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building high-throughput ETL, streaming, and data lake solutions across startups and enterprise environments. He has a proven track record of designing cost-saving pipelines—such as a Spark/EMR reconciliation framework handling multi-currency billing that saved his prior employer nearly $100k annually and a DynamoDB-to-Parquet ETL that cut ad-hoc query costs dramatically. Comfortable from low-level parsing and performance profiling to orchestration with Airflow, Terraform, Kinesis, and S3/Redshift, he repeatedly reduces latency and operational overhead in production systems. He combines a pragmatic engineering mindset from roles at Dell EMC and Isilon with hands-on leadership—having led teams that rebuilt core ETL platforms and customer-facing analytics products. Beyond typical data engineering work, he’s experienced in building custom parsers and distributed tooling for large-scale clusters, reflecting deep attention to efficiency and edge-case robustness.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.) General Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.) General Studies at Edmonds CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Western Washington University
English
Stackoverflow
8,261reputation
2.2mreached
115answers
136questions
forms
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ajax
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flask
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python
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Github Skills (161)
python10
terraform10
docker-desktop10
linter10
web-development10
flask10
wsgi10
pyramid10
micro-framework10
webapp10
boto10
graph10
multi-user10
jupyter-notebook10
werkzeug10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rawrgulmuffins/WTFormMultipleSelectTutorial
Mar 2014 - Jan 2020
This is a tutorial meant to show the basics of using SQLAlchemy and WTForms to generate a basic registration page.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 11 months
registration-pagepythonsqlalchemyregistrationpython3
rawrgulmuffins/a_guided_tour_of_flask
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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