Bill Forde
Senior Data Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBill Forde is a Senior Data Engineer in Chicago with 12 years of experience building scalable ETL pipelines, standardized data models, and analytics platforms across CPG, e-commerce, fintech and insurance. He combines hands-on data engineering at Cash App with prior BI leadership at Amazon and Kraft Heinz, translating product and operational objectives into reliable, self-serve datasets and decision-driving dashboards. Comfortable across SQL, Python, Tableau and modern data warehouse stacks, he also emphasizes documentation, data dictionaries and model diagrams to reduce tribal knowledge. Bill’s background in finance and a MS in Data Science (3.9 GPA) gives him a strong blend of analytical rigor and business sense for measuring customer and operational outcomes. He’s known for teaching teams to self-serve analytics while shipping production-grade pipelines and proactively surfacing new data sources. Outside work his GitHub persona is light-heartedly modest—“just another python developer”—hinting at a pragmatic, hands-on engineering style.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Finance, 3.95/4.0, Finance, 3.95/4.0 at DePaul UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, 3.9/4.0 at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree, Economics, English, Bachelor's degree, Economics, English at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (70)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willforde/arch-installer
Mar 2016 - Mar 2021
Automated Arch Linux Installer Plus Scripts
Contributions:1 PR, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
scriptinstallerlinuxarchlinuxbash
willforde/plugin.video.johnlocker
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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