Devon R
Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, DATAGroup at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevon R is a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer with over a decade of experience translating finance and operational domain knowledge into robust BI, ETL, and analytics solutions at the University of Washington. He combines deep T-SQL, SSIS, Python, and visualization expertise (Tableau, Power BI) with a background in cost accounting to design data models and dashboards that drive executive and operational decision-making. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has built federated data governance solutions, automated complex ETL for varied bank formats, and reconstructed legacy algorithms to improve accuracy and efficiency. Devon is also an active open-source contributor to prominent Python projects in the Discord ecosystem, demonstrating back-end engineering chops beyond traditional BI roles. He communicates effectively across technical and executive audiences and continually modernizes tooling and processes to meet evolving institutional needs.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Interdisciplinary Studies - Business and General Economics, BS, Interdisciplinary Studies - Business and General Economics at Arizona State University
Github Skills (13)
discord-py10
debugging10
bots10
debug10
python10
documentation10
api-design9
enums9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scarletcafe/jishaku
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
A debugging and testing cog for discord.py rewrite bots.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 473 commits, 82 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Devon primarily focused on developing and maintaining features within the discord.py-based bot, "jishaku." Their contributions included implementing load/unload commands for extensions, improving REPL functionality (e.g., adding new REPL variables, fixing traceback issues), adding shell and git command abstractions, and enhancing the python REPL. They also made significant improvements to command structure, code modularization, and error handling, while introducing commands to facilitate bot management, file access, and code inspection.
jishakupythoncogdiscorddiscord-bot
Rapptz/discord.py
Aug 2017 - Apr 2022
An API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 25 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Devon primarily contributed to the `discord.py` library, focusing on internal improvements and documentation enhancements. They refactored code by changing `VerificationLevel` and `ContentFilter` to `IntEnum` and added operation documentation for these enums. The user also added documentation examples for `AsyncIterator` and `change_presence`, improving the library's usability. Further changes include migrating documentation and quoting route parameters.
apipythonapi-wrapperdiscordbot
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