Emily Sommer
Staff Systems Architect In Sustainable Computing at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Sommer is a Staff Systems Architect specializing in sustainable computing with 14 years of experience building reliable, data-first tooling at Etsy. She designs and migrates large-scale analytics infrastructure—most recently leading a cloud migration of a 40-node Vertica cluster and modernizing ad-data ingestion to Kafka Streams—while reducing operational toil and noise for on-call teams. Passionate about statistics and data visualization, she combines hands-on systems engineering with a knack for making data accessible and fun for internal consumers. Largely self-taught and a generous mentor, Emily has a track record of automating repetitive work across roles from PHP scripting to Terraform and Chef, and she often surfaces subtle production issues like bot-traffic spikes that improve downstream analytics. Located in New York, she brings an interdisciplinary background in liberal arts and design to pragmatic, human-centered data systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Liberal Arts; Philosophy, Political Science, Literature, and History of Math and Science, B.A, Liberal Arts; Philosophy, Political Science, Literature, and History of Math and Science at St. John's College (NM)Studied Graphic Design, Media Arts, Studied Graphic Design, Media Arts at Santa Fe Community CollegeMediaBistro Intensive CourseJavaScript, JavaScript at Recurse Center
English
Github Skills (22)
estimate8
energy6
climate-change5
consumption5
carbon-emissions5
billing4
sustainability4
gcp3
orientdb1
gamma1
data-management1
measurement1
tla1
aggregator1
cql1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
esommer/patientproxy
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 4 months
esommer/etsy-thanks
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
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