Guido Petri
Data Engineer
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGuido Petri is a data engineer with 10 years of experience building production-grade data platforms, analytics pipelines, and ML infrastructure. He has led engineering teams and cost-optimized Vertex AI and Kubernetes workloads—cutting runtime and spend by over 90%—while managing releases with Airflow, GCP, and Jira. His background spans hands-on data engineering (ETL, data warehousing on Azure/Postgres), applied ML consulting, and maintaining the open-source analytics tool Redash. Guido is also an active OSS contributor to well-known projects like LightFM and Pygame, where he improved prediction robustness and added low-level color functionality respectively. He pairs formal training (MS in Data Science from NYU, BS in Chemical Engineering) with practical lab-style rigor from earlier analytical chemistry work, a combination that shows in his attention to data quality and reproducible pipelines. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he blends leadership, DevOps fluency, and reproducible ML practice to deliver measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Data Science, Master of Science Data Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering at Technische Universität BerlinUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Portuguese, German, French, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
cypress10
pytest10
python10
testing10
machine-learning10
c1110
numpy10
c1710
pygame10
recommender-system10
sdl9
javascript9
dockers9
docker9
poet9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
getredash/redash
Jul 2019 - Aug 2024
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:134 reviews, 166 PRs, 118 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Guido's contributions primarily involved a mix of frontend testing, backend infrastructure configuration, and overall project modernization. They updated Cypress tests for dashboard visualizations, showing proficiency in frontend testing. Moreover, the user converted the project to use Poetry for dependency management and updated Docker configurations, demonstrating knowledge of DevOps practices. They also refactored database query handling.
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pygame/pygame
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Guido primarily contributed to the `pygame/pygame` repository by implementing a `lerp()` function within the color module. This involved modifying existing C code to add the `lerp` method and updating the documentation to reflect the change. Additionally, the user addressed a few minor issues like a typo and added documentation files. These changes focus on enhancing the functionality and documentation of the color manipulation capabilities within the Pygame library.
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