Summary
David Schneider is a Cloud Economics Manager with eight years of data and cloud experience, specializing in FinOps and cost optimization for enterprise clients. Based in Denver, he architects billing and usage pipelines (S3/Glue, Redshift, dbt, PySpark) and has led $10M+ EDP negotiations with AWS to secure cross-service pricing for Fortune 100 customers. He migrates and modernizes data platforms—moving SQL Server on EC2 to RDS, building ETL in Kubernetes/ECS and automating attribution and capacity recommendations—while also contributing tooling improvements like standardized Parquet naming to shared utilities. Originally rooted in analytics and marketing systems, he pairs deep SQL and Python pragmatism with a knack for translating business needs into auditable, production-ready pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Linear Algebra, Linear Algebra at University of Colorado Denver
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Human Development, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Human Development at Cornell University
I-MIX/MAX
Wayland High School