Daniel Beach
Senior Data Engineer
Ankeny, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Beach is a Senior Data Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building data warehouses, ETL pipelines, and ML workflows across startups and enterprise teams. He architects scalable PySpark and Databricks solutions (Delta Lake, Airflow, CI/CD, Docker) and has led projects spanning AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and geospatial ML while upskilling teammates. Author of Introduction to Data Engineering and the voice behind dataengineeringcentral and Confessions of a Data Guy, he blends practical tooling expertise (Python, Rust, SQL) with clear technical communication. Based in Ankeny, Iowa, he’s equally comfortable designing data models and shipping production ML pipelines, and brings a curious, agriculture-systems-turned-data background that informs pragmatic, systems-oriented problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Agriculture Systems Technology, agriculture systems technology, Agriculture Systems Technology, agriculture systems technology at Iowa State University
Github Skills (47)
monitor10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
apache10
scheduler10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
data-engineering9
spark9
data-pipelines9
helper-methods9
workflow-engine9
data-modeling9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danielbeach/dataEngineeringTemplate
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Template for Data Engineering and Data Pipeline projects
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
pipelinedata-sciencesqldata-engineeringspark
danielbeach/data-engineering-practice
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Data Engineering Practice Problems
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
pythondataengineeringdata-scienceproblemsdata-engineering
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