David Belais
Staff Data Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Belais is a Staff Data Engineer in Portland, Oregon with nearly two decades of experience building resilient, testable data products and distributable Python libraries that power analytics and sustainability decisioning. He has led and mentored teams at Nike and Kroger to deliver production ELT/ETL pipelines, cross-platform ORM and filesystem tooling, and cost-saving orchestration frameworks spanning Databricks, Snowflake, EMR, Kafka, and Airflow. A pragmatic architect and hands-on coder, he authors type-annotated, well-tested SDKs, CLIs, and web APIs (FastAPI + SQLAlchemy) and champions CI/CD, schema versioning, and reproducible footprinting for environmental analytics. His work includes novel abstractions for multi-dialect SQLAlchemy support and an Airflow/Databricks/EMR deployment shim that materially reduced compute cost and latency for real workloads. Equally comfortable condensing ambiguous requirements into concrete roadmaps or diving into low-level data modeling, he blends product impact with engineering rigor. Outside typical metrics, he describes his craft as “engineering inorganic solutions for esoteric problems,” reflecting a taste for elegant technical problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Animation Interactive Technology Video Graphics and Special Effects, Bachelor of Science (BS) Animation Interactive Technology Video Graphics and Special Effects at The Art Institute of PortlandFine Arts, Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (34)
routines9
pyserial9
isbn9
openapi8
api8
python-client8
swagger8
cerberus7
validating7
python7
database7
upc7
itertools7
ansi6
sql6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davebelais/urlesque
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
enorganic/localstack-s3-pyspark
Feb 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:9 PRs, 145 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.