Dana Kaplan
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDana Kaplan is a Senior Data Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience turning messy, terabyte-scale data into reliable, production-ready assets. She has led ETL and batch ingestion efforts using Spark, Airflow, Snowflake and the AWS ecosystem, built in-house tooling to replace SaaS components, and authored automated QA and lineage systems to keep complex pipelines auditable. Comfortable managing contractors and on-call emergencies alike, she combines hands-on engineering with strong operational discipline and a history of optimizing cost and performance. Early work spans analytics, recommendation systems, and NLP, and she even won a company hackathon applying pretrained neural nets to image-style clustering—evidence of a practical curiosity that drives unexpected, high-value solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hoodie of Academic Achievement Machine Learning & Data Science, Hoodie of Academic Achievement Machine Learning & Data Science at Galvanize - San Francisco, SoMaBS BA Mathematics (BS) Economics (BA), BS BA Mathematics (BS) Economics (BA) at University of Rochester
Github Skills (18)
stripe9
payment9
stripe-api9
php-library8
api8
geocoder7
php7
reverse-engineering7
python6
nodejs-library5
javascript4
infrastructure4
nodejs4
geocoding4
gif1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marqsm/LED-bot
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 8 months
danasf/LEDProtestSign
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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