Erin Drummond
Senior Software Engineer at Fivetran
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolErin Drummond is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience delivering production-ready systems across startups and enterprise teams, now contributing at Fivetran after Tobiko’s acquisition. He excels in Linux-first cloud platforms (primarily AWS), data engineering and DevOps, having migrated large Redshift platforms to S3/Parquet pipelines and built low-latency event processors at scale. Erin is a pragmatic generalist who thrives in small teams—designing integrations, shipping tooling, and owning testing and support—and has deep practical experience with data tooling like SQLMesh/SQLGlot, to which he has contributed parsing fixes and dialect support. Comfortable across languages and infra (Python, Java, DBT, Airflow, Terraform, Docker), he pairs system-level administration skills with product-focused delivery. Outside engineering he’s into horticulture, brewing and distilling, a curiosity that mirrors his habit of improving systems end-to-end rather than just a single layer.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing Systems, Computer Programming, A average, Bachelor of Computing Systems, Computer Programming, A average at Eastern Institute of TechnologyCertificate in Organic Horticulture (Level 4), Horticultural Science, Certificate in Organic Horticulture (Level 4), Horticultural Science at Western Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
sql-parser10
transcode10
sql10
python10
transpiler10
timezone9
zone9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tobymao/sqlglot
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Python SQL Parser and Transpiler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 17 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the `sqlglot` repository. Their work involved refining SQL dialect support, specifically addressing issues in parsing and transpilation for various database systems like Trino, Postgres, and Redshift. These modifications encompassed fixing date format issues and improving the handling of complex SQL constructs such as `MERGE` statements. The user also added timezone support to the `TIME_STR_TO_TIME` function, expanded test coverage, and improved the accuracy of the SQL generation.
pythontranslationtsqlparserredshift
erindru/sqlmesh
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
Efficient data transformation and modeling framework that is backwards compatible with dbt.
Contributions:64 pushes, 18 branches in 4 months
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