Drew Sonne
SRE at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDrew Sonne is an experienced SRE and engineering leader with 13 years building resilient, cost-efficient data platforms and cloud infrastructure across startups and large enterprises. He has led teams through major migrations (AWS→GCP, Cassandra→Scylla) and scaled data pipelines handling petabyte-class datasets and multi-terabyte daily ingest. A hands-on mentor who prefers developing engineers over commanding them, Drew blends backend and database engineering expertise—evidenced by contributions to Apache Airflow and multi-database adapter work on open-source projects. He co-founded a healthcare startup, owning fundraising, roadmaps, and full-stack delivery, and has driven measurable operational savings and zero-downtime migrations. Based in London, he pairs pragmatic engineering with people-first incentives to align teams around product ownership and pride. Outside of work he’s an adventurous problem-solver — having driven across four continents and extreme environments — a trait that surfaces in his risk-aware, resilient systems thinking.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Arts German Information Technology, Arts German Information Technology at The University of Queensland
German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
apache-airflow10
database-connector10
python10
mysql10
data-engineering10
adaptor10
workflow-engine10
plugin10
sql-server10
php10
database-driver10
adapter10
orchestration10
orchestra10
pdo10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 PRs, 61 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Drew contributed to the Apache Airflow codebase by implementing and extending the plugin loading functionality. They added the ability to load plugins from entry points, enabling management via pip and reducing file system interactions. The user also integrated plugin blueprints, and corrected the missing Sqoop connector. Furthermore, the user updated the documentation for plugins and disabled SQL Alchemy tracking in the Webserver.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
victorstanciu/dbv
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
Database version control, made easy!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily focused on extending database adapter functionality within the project, specifically to support various database systems like MySQL and SQL Server. They added the ability to connect to MySQL databases using Unix sockets and TCP/IP connections. Furthermore, the user added support for SQL Server, implementing the core database interactions, including tables, views, procedures, and functions, and addressing required code changes. These contributions suggest a focus on database connectivity, adapter implementation, and supporting different database backends.
database-version-controlversion-controlmysqlsqldatabase
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