Alex Rasmussen
Freelance Data Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rasmussen is a data systems contractor, consultant, and advisor with 16 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data and cloud infrastructure for startups and SMBs from Los Angeles. A Ph.D. in computer science and a history of world-record large-scale sorting research underpin a career that spans technical leadership roles from VP of Engineering at Freenome to principal engineering and cloud-economics work at Trifacta and The Duckbill Group. He helps teams reduce cloud spend at seven-figure monthly AWS scales, negotiates vendor contracts, and designs ETL, LIMS, bioinformatics, and machine-learning systems that move from prototype to production. Known for growing teams and instituting engineering standards, Alex blends deep systems research with practical tooling and pipeline overhauls. Off the resume, his GitHub persona as a “former world heavyweight sorting champion” hints at a longtime obsession with performant data processing and elegant engineering solutions.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San Diego
English, German
Github Skills (102)
operation10
python10
airbyte10
metadata10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
markdown10
ontologies10
data-engineering10
thin10
traceability10
scheduler10
data-integration10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexras/bread
Jul 2012 - Dec 2018
Binary format parsing made easier
Contributions:10 releases, 111 commits, 10 PRs in 6 years 6 months
binary-formatparsing
alexras/pylsdj
Jan 2015 - May 2016
A utility belt for dealing with LSDJ save data
Contributions:7 releases, 40 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
belt
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