David La Chasse
Staff Data Platform Engineer
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid La Chasse is a Staff Data Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience building data and full-stack systems across retail and consumer brands. Currently at Weights & Biases, he moved up from Data Platform Engineer to Staff, bringing practical expertise in data infrastructure, pipelines, and platform reliability. His background includes senior engineering and management roles at PepsiCo and Blue Bottle Coffee where he led subscription billing, production platforms, and cross-functional integrations that tied product, finance, and operations together. Earlier work managing product databases and inventory sync at Blank Apparel gives him a rare combination of hands-on operational systems knowledge and scalable engineering practice. Based in Spokane, WA, he focuses on turning messy real-world data and business processes into auditable, reliable platforms. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves fluidly between mentoring teams and shipping production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Oregon State UniversityThe Art Institute of Portland
Github Skills (61)
data-quality9
mws9
eda9
data-integrity9
exploratory-data-analysis9
dvc9
pipeline9
netsuite9
data-profiling9
freetds8
gcloud8
mlops8
webservice8
data-science8
data-validation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wandb/terraform-google-dagster
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 13 reviews, 25 commits in 7 months
bluebottlecoffee/netsuite
May 2018 - Jul 2019
NetSuite SuiteTalk API Wrapper
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
netsuite
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