Davis Townsend
Staff Data Analyst
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavis Townsend is a Staff Data Analyst with nine years of experience applying analytics, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization to drive multimillion-dollar savings and strategic decisions at companies like GitLab, EA, and Dutchie. He combines deep SQL, DBT, Python, time-series and statistical modeling skills with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP and Azure to build data marts, enterprise models, and automation that consistently reduce waste and speed decision-making. At GitLab and EA he led Cloud FinOps and engineering analytics efforts that produced measurable cost reductions and improved SaaS availability, and he created tooling to manage committed use discounts and billing anomaly detection. A UT Austin MS in Business Analytics grad, Davis pairs rigorous academic training with a practical knack for converting messy vendor and billing data into prioritized, actionable savings—often via lightweight automation that saves teams days of work each month. Based remotely in Austin, he’s passionate about modern data operations and continually seeks new challenges to scale business impact.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Business Analytics, Master of Science (MS) Business Analytics at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (61)
jupyter-notebook8
scalable8
python8
python-lib8
dask8
distributed-computing8
jupyter7
pydata7
notebook7
trend7
machine-learning7
google-colaboratory7
google-sheets7
pandas7
time-series-forecasting7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DavisTownsend/DavisTownsend.github.io
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:183 pushes in 1 year 4 months
simple-websitebeautiful-jekylljekylljekyll-thememinutes
DavisTownsend/magi
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:183 commits, 1 PR, 162 pushes in 1 month
forecastingtime-series-analysischartparallelseries-forecasting
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