Brooke White
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrooke White is a software engineer with a decade of experience building server-side and data engineering systems, currently focused at AWS in San Francisco. She specializes in real-time data processing infrastructure, RESTful API design, and reliable testing practices that enable product-facing features to ship safely. Brooke has hands-on experience scaling backend systems and collaborating with business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into pragmatic solutions. She is an active open-source contributor to the popular sqlalchemy-redshift project, adding support for Redshift-specific types like TIMETZ, GEOMETRY, and SUPER to improve SQLAlchemy compatibility. Known for attention to detail and a pragmatic engineering style, she blends production-grade systems thinking with community-focused contributions from her time working with the Redshift ecosystem.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
College of MarinUniversity of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
databases10
amazon-redshift10
postgresql10
sqlalchemy10
python10
database10
backend9
sql9
back-end-development9
testing8
pytest8
pandas6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sqlalchemy-redshift/sqlalchemy-redshift
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Amazon Redshift SQLAlchemy Dialect
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 24 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Brooke primarily contributed to the development of the `sqlalchemy-redshift` dialect, focusing on extending its functionality and fixing bugs. They implemented support for new data types like `TIMETZ`, `GEOMETRY`, and `SUPER`, enhancing the dialect's compatibility with Redshift's features. They also addressed issues related to quoting and compilation, ensuring accurate SQL generation and data type handling within the SQLAlchemy framework. Furthermore, the user contributed to the inclusion of the redshift_connector library.
pythondialectsqlalchemyredshiftpylint
Brooke-white/RecipeParser
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:67 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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