Franklin Whaite
Cloud Data Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolFranklin Whaite is a Cloud Data Engineer with five years of hands-on experience building petabyte-scale data platforms and production ML solutions, currently driving cloud data initiatives at Google from Austin. He has led data teams and architectures—shaping ETL pipelines, data lakes, and warehouses—while delivering business-impacting models for recommendation, fraud detection, churn prediction, and pricing. Previously Head of Data at a startup and Data Architect for clients like Disney and ESPN, he combines hands-on engineering (Hadoop/Spark, Scala/Python, LightGBM, NN stacks) with team leadership and product-minded analytics. Known for migrating heavy analytics into scalable production systems and cutting execution time through pragmatic tech choices, he focuses on data quality across the full lifecycle to enable reliable, actionable insights.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los Andes
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
data-stream10
apache-spark10
google-cloud-platform10
utilities10
bigquery10
stackdriver10
dataflow10
pyspark10
google-cloud-dataflow10
sqf10
migration10
data-loss-prevention10
spanner10
bigtable10
gcp10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
franklinWhaite/professional-services
Apr 2022 - May 2023
Common solutions and tools developed by Google Cloud's Professional Services team
Contributions:11 reviews, 14 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 year
gcpprofessionalgooglegoogle-cloud-platformprofessional-services
GoogleCloudPlatform/bigquery-antipattern-recognition
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Utility to identify and rewrite common anti patterns in BigQuery SQL syntax
Contributions:17 releases, 88 reviews, 102 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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