Em Fazza
Data Architect
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEm Fazza is a Data Architect with nine years of experience designing resilient, compliant data ecosystems for fast-growing tech companies, currently leading data strategy at HashiCorp from Portland. A mathematician-turned-engineer and former bug bounty hunter, Em has rebuilt underperforming pipelines into reliable, cost-efficient systems and spearheaded GDPR-compliant analytics expansions and data residency solutions for multi-region cloud platforms. They combine hands-on expertise across Snowflake, S3, Airflow/Prefect, EMR, and Terraform with cross-functional leadership—shaping governance, risk & compliance, disaster recovery, and buy/build decisions. Notable wins include a 90% runtime optimization of critical pipelines at Cash App, building a real-time fraud pipeline, and accelerating research consortia data workflows at Sage Bionetworks. Pragmatic, security-minded, and mentorship-oriented, Em blends rigorous engineering with documentation and training to scale teams and operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, 3.0 and higher., Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, 3.0 and higher. at The University of Texas at Dallas
Portuguese, German, English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
agora9
python9
webapp9
compiler8
biomedical-informatics8
derived7
biomedical7
sage6
sustainability6
testing6
schema5
csv5
gatsbyjs5
pipeline5
scoped5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mattfazza/Networks
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 months
mattfazza/agora-data-tools
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
A place for Agora's ETL and Data Testing
Contributions:48 PRs, 82 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year
placepythondata-testingtestingspark
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