Brendan O'dwyer
Principal Cloud Data Engineer
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan O'dwyer is a Principal Cloud Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, event-driven data platforms and ML infrastructure across financial and insurance domains. He specializes in distributed systems, Kafka ecosystem design and governance, and automating cloud-native deployments for scalable model serving and streaming analytics. Brendan has a strong track record at enterprises like USAA, Charles Schwab, and Tokio Marine HCC driving observability, data lineage, and CI/CD for models and clusters, often implementing custom tooling in Java and Python. A pragmatic lifelong learner who openly admits gaps, he pairs deep hands-on engineering—Puppet automation, Pub/Sub/BigQuery/TF pipelines, and protocol buffers-based model portability—with practical governance to balance velocity and reliability. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area with a background in economics, he brings both technical depth and a business-minded approach to shaping data strategies that reduce operational risk and improve throughput.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Economics, Bachelor's Degree Economics at The University of Texas at Arlington
English
Github Skills (33)
python8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
data-science7
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
queue5
alter5
neural-network5
streaming4
jax4
database3
ddl3
messaging3
bare3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brendanodwyer/python-tdd-book
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:38 pushes, 5 branches, 3 tags in 2 months
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