Francis Agbodji is an accomplished data engineering leader with nine years of experience building cloud-native, real-time data and AI platforms for Fortune 500 companies. Currently Associate Vice President of Data Engineering at NBCUniversal, he has scaled and led global teams of 40+ engineers across data, ML, and AI platform disciplines while instilling a product-oriented, high-performance culture. His hands-on background spans Databricks, Spark, Azure/AWS serverless and event-driven pipelines, and enterprise data modeling—work that has driven measurable cost savings and faster time-to-insight. Previously at PepsiCo and Disney he led ML-driven forecasting and clickstream/ETL optimizations, cutting compute costs and supply-chain expenses through pragmatic architecture and CI/CD/observability best practices. He pairs technical depth with people development—mentoring senior leaders and aligning engineering roadmaps to long-term business strategy—and holds an MS in Applied AI alongside multiple immersive data engineering credentials. An early career blend of full-stack and product design work gives him a rare appreciation for UX and downstream consumer-facing data products.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at Howard University
Data Science Inmmersive Data Science, Data Science Inmmersive Data Science at Flatiron School
Master of Science - MS Applied Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Applied Artificial Intelligence at University of San Diego
Data Engineering Data Science Big Data Python R JDBC Excel SQL NoSQL Oracle DB Hadoop MapReduce Spark D3, Data Engineering Data Science Big Data Python R JDBC Excel SQL NoSQL Oracle DB Hadoop MapReduce Spark D3 at Platform by Per Scholas
Software Engineering Intensive Full Stack Web Development User Xperience Design Full Stack Javascript OOP in JS & Ruby Ruby on Rails SQL Database Theory, Software Engineering Intensive Full Stack Web Development User Xperience Design Full Stack Javascript OOP in JS & Ruby Ruby on Rails SQL Database Theory at New York Code + Design Academy
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Francis Agbodji - Associate Vice President - Data Engineering