Brian Stempin
Senior Data Engineer
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Stempin is a seasoned data and software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable data pipelines and distributed systems across startups and large enterprises. He specializes in Python, Scala, Spark, Postgres, and AWS, and has delivered production analytics at scale for clients including Disney Streaming, Snowflake-driven BI stacks, and geospatial products at Skyhook. As founder and Head Engineer of Unfamiliar Labs, he combines contracting work—data migrations, ETL, and BI—with experimental SaaS and maker projects that bridge hardware and web services. He’s comfortable operating remotely, automating devops, and designing elastic architectures that prioritize testability and dependency decoupling (demonstrated by thoughtful refactors in open-source projects). His background spans both high-throughput event processing and product-facing REST APIs, and he frequently blends object-oriented and functional patterns to manage complexity. Based in Orlando, he brings pragmatic engineering discipline plus an appetite for creative, interdisciplinary projects.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
IST BS, Info Sci + Tech, IST BS, Info Sci + Tech at Temple University
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
software-design10
dependency-injection10
java10
hadoop9
database9
network-interface9
unit-testing8
thread-pool6
hibernate-mapping6
jakartaee6
mapreduce6
hibernate6
hdfs6
concurrency6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition is a no-nonsense implementation of FizzBuzz made by serious businessmen for serious business purposes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brian focused on refactoring the FizzBuzz implementation to adhere to an "enterprise" design, including introducing output strategies and factories to decouple dependencies. They implemented a `SystemOutFizzBuzzOutputStrategy` to wrap `System.out`, demonstrating an understanding of dependency injection and testability. The commits show the user adding interfaces, concrete implementations, and refactoring existing code to utilize the new strategies, significantly altering the code's structure. The user also added constructors to several classes.
fizzbuzz
bstempi/vindinium-client
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
This is a sample client for the Vindinium AI game, written in Java, using the Google HTTP client and GSON.
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years
aigoogle-http-clientgsonjava
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