Charlie Summers
Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Summers is a data engineer with 11 years of experience who currently builds production data systems at Jane Street while pursuing a part-time doctorate in Computer Science (Databases) at Columbia under Dr. Eugene Wu. He has led and scaled data platforms at Merit—owning a SQL-first stack (Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, Fivetran) that processes >100M rows daily and migrated data for 2,500+ organizations with zero loss—while managing an eight-person, hybrid team. Charlie blends hands-on engineering (Kafka, Go, Scala, Terraform) with operational rigor—rolling out data quality monitoring that prevented customer-impacting incidents in 2024—and has driven org-wide initiatives around event streams, privacy-preserving data use, and GDPR-safe migrations. He’s equally comfortable translating product needs into reliable pipelines and arguing for future-facing privacy architectures so governments can use data responsibly. Based in New York, he’s active in the data community through talks and workshops and brings a rare combination of production-scale delivery, academic depth, and civic-minded impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree B.S. Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree B.S. Mathematics at Fordham UniversityDoctor of Engineering Science Computer Science, Doctor of Engineering Science Computer Science at Columbia UniversityComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at 42 Silicon ValleyAdvanced Computer Security Certificate, Advanced Computer Security Certificate at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (50)
data-stream10
realtime10
datastore10
java10
scheduling10
azkaban10
apache9
apache-flink9
apache-pinot9
workflow-engine9
pinot9
big-data9
alan8
olap8
code-behind8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
reallocf/azkaban
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:113 pushes, 51 branches in 11 months
azkabanworkflow
reallocf/Algorithms_Course_Spring_2017
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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