Summary
Andrew Thornton is a data engineer and consultant based in California with over 15 years delivering hosted software and services, and eight years focused specifically on data engineering and analytics. He blends hands-on pipeline work—migrating ETL from third-party platforms to native Hive/Hadoop, modernizing Hive execution, and building ML recommendation pipelines—with product and project leadership across wholesale electricity and environmental attribute markets. Comfortable with Airflow, Python, Presto, Hive, Hadoop and SQL, he pairs engineering craft with product thinking from his decade-plus as a product manager and market operations leader. Andrew’s background in global economics and web development training gives him a rare mix of domain fluency, user-centered product sensibility, and practical engineering skills that help turn complex regulatory and market requirements into operational data solutions.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Kickstart Coding
English, Spanish