Summary
Eric Albanese is a Head of Data Engineering with nine years of experience building data platforms and growing teams across high-growth startups and scale-ups. He has led end-to-end data transformations—from designing trillion-event pipelines at Metamarkets to centralizing Snowflake/DBT stacks and launching ML at Babylist, and more recently building a full analytics foundation as the sole data hire at Compa. Known for scaling organizations (built a 17-person data engineering org at Shipt) and shipping pragmatic tooling (Kafka, Spark, Druid, Airflow, DBT), he blends hands-on engineering with lean, Toyota-influenced problem solving. Based in Los Angeles with master's training in Industrial & Systems Engineering, he pairs a systems-thinking approach to logistics and supply chain with product-focused analytics and measurable business impact. An emphasis on mentorship and hiring has repeatedly turned small teams into dependable data orgs that drive growth and operational efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.E. Industrial Engineering, M.E. Industrial Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology