Brad Maggard
Senior Data Engineer
United States
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Top SchoolBrad Maggard is a Senior Data Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating data platforms, specializing in SQL/PLSQL, Python, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data warehousing across technologies like Snowflake, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, and Airflow. He blends deep infrastructure and database administration expertise with hands-on engineering—comfortable from Linux systems administration and Docker to legacy mainframe stacks (COBOL, CICS, JCL) and modern cloud-native patterns. Brad has led architecture and implementation efforts for analytics systems at companies including IntegriChain, StackPath, and Thrivent, focusing on reliable, production-ready data flows that enable business decisioning. An active open-source contributor, he improved robustness and test coverage in the petl Python ETL library, adding configurability and aggregation features. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who bridges legacy enterprise systems and contemporary data engineering practices. His background as both consultant and long-tenured infrastructure SME gives him rare context for migrating and modernizing complex data estates.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Technology, Associate's degree, Computer Technology at Central Carolina Technical College
English
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Github Skills (8)
data-transformation10
ag10
aggregate10
aggregates10
aggregations10
python10
aggregator10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
petl-developers/petl
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Python Extract Transform and Load Tables of Data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily focused on enhancing the `petl` library's functionality and reliability. They added configuration options to improve the library's error handling behavior, and also implemented comprehensive tests. The user's contributions included refactoring code for improved maintainability, Python 2.6 compatibility and fixing import issues. Furthermore, the user worked on documenting facets and aggregate functions, as well as allowing aggregation over the entire table.
python
bmaggard/petl
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
Python Extract Transform and Load Tables of Data
Contributions:9 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 5 months
datacleaningpythondata-explorationtransformetl
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