Summary
Dirk Dunn is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience modernizing data platforms and building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines across healthcare, finance, and travel industries. Based in Burlington, Vermont, he has led system development and data engineering efforts at organizations like CVS Health, Cognizant MBG, and Greenbacker, with deep expertise in Databricks/PySpark, Azure data services, Airflow, and cloud migration patterns. He excels at taking legacy systems to modular, production-ready architectures—having restructured legacy codebases, rebuilt analytics platforms, and implemented underwriting tag logic for claims at scale. A practical consultant and tech lead, Dirk combines deployment/version management and thorough documentation with day-to-day coding, QA, and stakeholder collaboration. His career began in web development when FTP was still trendy, giving him a rare full-stack perspective that helps bridge developer ergonomics and data reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Transfer Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Transfer Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at SUNY Adirondack
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology Psychology at State University of New York at Plattsburgh