Becky Sweger
Data Engineering Lead, New Practice Lab
Easthampton, Massachusetts, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBecky Sweger is a hands-on data engineering leader with 15 years of experience building resilient data platforms across government, healthcare, higher education, non-profits, and SaaS. Currently leading Data Engineering at New Practice Lab, she combines technical depth—designing batch and real-time systems, ETL pipelines, and multi-terabyte warehouses—with a collaborative leadership style that cultivates curious, high-performing teams. Her track record includes enabling company-wide data models at Atlassian’s Trello, slashing storage costs and speeding queries, and reducing data-leak detection times by 99%. Becky also helped implement the U.S. DATA Act while at 18F, prototyping multi-agency integrations and a SQL-based validation engine that saved taxpayers millions. She pairs research and communication skills from academic infectious disease forecasting work with practical product delivery, making complex data useful where people need it. Based in Easthampton, MA, she brings a rare blend of policy-scale impact and hands-on engineering craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Information Systems Information Technology, Master of Science in Information Systems Information Technology at Drexel UniversityBA English Technical Writing, BA English Technical Writing at James Madison University
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Github Skills (126)
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Github contributions (5)
fedspendingtransparency/fedspendingtransparency.github.io
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Federal Spending Transparency
Contributions:137 commits, 81 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 7 months
transparencyspendingfederal
bsweger/usaspending-scripts
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
govpythonsummarizespendingfederal
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