Brandon Harris
Director, Data Engineering
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Harris is a Director of Data Engineering with 11+ years building and scaling enterprise data and AI platforms across regulated and manufacturing environments. He architects end-to-end solutions—real-time IoT integrations, GenAI pipelines, CDC-driven modern data stacks, and MS Fabric/Databricks deployments—while balancing compliance and operational performance in both government and commercial settings. A pragmatic leader, he has repeatedly unified teams and transformed delivery through Agile, Lean and DevOps practices, driving measurable outcomes like faster data freshness and reduced incident counts. His background spans financial services, travel, insurance and retail, giving him deep experience in cloud governance, model risk controls, and mission-critical analytics at scale. Based in Chicago and self-described as an INTJ geek, he combines hands-on technical authorship with strategic roadmap stewardship and a knack for translating complex data systems into usable business insight.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Applied Data Science, Master of Science (MSc) Applied Data Science at University of ChicagoB.S. Business Administration, B.S. Business Administration at Upper Iowa University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (101)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
namebrandon/Sparkov_Data_Generation
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
Synthetic Credit Card Transaction Generator used in the Sparkov program.
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 6 years 5 months
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namebrandon/time-series-gen
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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