Summary
Brian Femiano is a Senior Data Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable data platforms and analytics pipelines for companies like Apple and Pandora. He blends deep distributed-systems expertise (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, GCP) with practical data science skills, enabling him to contribute to both engineering and analysis of very large datasets. His background spans startups and defense to media, with hands-on experience in Java, Scala, Python, Golang, Elixir and storage systems such as HBase and Accumulo. Coauthor of Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook, he has a track record of translating complex distributed problems into clear, runnable examples. Based in New York, he’s as comfortable bootstrapping products as he is optimizing production data workflows, and he maintains an active open-source presence on GitHub.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Salisbury University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at James Madison University