Andrew Jones
Principal Data Engineer
East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Jones is a Staff Data Engineer and independent consultant with 15 years of experience building scalable data platforms and driving data quality through pragmatic architecture. He coined the term "data contracts" and authored the definitive book on the topic, helping organisations embed governance, trust, and autonomy directly into their data stacks. Based near London, he has advised and implemented federated data platforms for teams across the US, Europe and Asia, and now combines consulting with hands-on platform work at LocalStack. Known for translating business needs into persona-aligned analytics and high-volume event architectures, he bridges product, engineering and governance in production systems. Beyond books and consulting, his career spans senior engineering and leadership roles at GoCardless, Springer Nature and ARM, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and organisational influence.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Harlow CollegeBsc Hons, Business Information Technology, Computing, Software Development, Programming, Bsc Hons, Business Information Technology, Computing, Software Development, Programming at Bournemouth University
Stackoverflow
1,831reputation
1.5mreached
27answers
9questions
gcc
top-5%
warnings
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Github Skills (141)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
sftp10
ssh10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
data-science10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gocardless/airflow-dbt
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Apache Airflow integration for dbt
Contributions:10 reviews, 48 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 3 months
bigqueryapachedata-lineagedbtairflow
andrewrjones/perl5-WebService-TVDB
Feb 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:97 commits in 1 year 9 months
perlthetvdb
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