Grayson Williams
Senior Data Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrayson Williams is a Senior Data Engineer with a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics and over a decade of experience building scalable data platforms, ETL pipelines, and high-performance computing solutions. He has modernized legacy ETL stacks into cloud-native architectures at companies like Teachers Pay Teachers and Elevate Labs, driving cost reductions, operational monitoring, and event-platform migrations. Comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and technical lead, he blends deep systems-level skills (C/C++, Fortran, MPI/OpenMP, HPC) with modern data tooling (dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, Kubernetes). His background in building detector DAQ systems and operating LHC computing nodes gives him unusual expertise in hardware-software integration and mission-critical reliability. Based in Seattle, he pairs scientific rigor and statistical analysis with pragmatic product-focused delivery across cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizonanone, Physics, none, Physics at Arizona State UniversityPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at The Ohio State University
English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
singer-io9
google-bigquery8
google-cloud5
singer5
analytics4
monitor4
bigquery3
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
graysonw/interview_assignments
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Code I've written for various job applications (company names have been removed)
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
job
RealSelf/etl-docker
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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