Benjamin Forleo
Principal Data Engineer
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Forleo is a Principal Data Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, reliable data platforms, primarily in AWS and Apache Spark environments. Based in Greater Boston, he has advanced through multiple engineering roles at Liberty Mutual, designing Lambda-based batch pipelines that ingest hundreds of gigabytes per day and deploying infrastructure as code with CloudFormation and CDK. He pairs a strong analytics foundation (MS in Analytics) and hands-on data science work—clustering-based recommendation engines and Power BI dashboards—with operational discipline in Agile squads. Benjamin's background includes cross-disciplinary experience as an economist, which informs his pragmatic approach to turning complex data into actionable business insights. Known for bridging data engineering and analytics, he focuses on productionizing models and automating workflows so teams can move from discovery to decision faster.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) International Business and Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) International Business and Economics at UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and EconomicsMaster of Science - MS Analytics, Master of Science - MS Analytics at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (1)
social-media7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benforleo/disinformation_project
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
Analyzing social media data associated with the Russian influence campaign during the 2016 election
Contributions:69 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 5 months
analyzingsocial-mediainfluenceelection
benforleo/fred-data-extractor
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 release, 47 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year
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