James Gardner
Data Engineer Lead
Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Gardner is a Data Engineer Lead with 11 years of experience designing scalable, production-grade data pipelines and cloud-native architectures across healthcare and public sector organizations. He specializes in Snowflake integrations, AWS Glue and PySpark processing, and orchestrating reliable workflows using Dagster or Lambda+Step Functions, complemented by Terraform-driven infrastructure and CI/CD automation. Currently leading data engineering at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota after senior roles at Lifespark and state ITS teams, he focuses on efficiency, observability, and maintainability in analytics platforms. A Minnesota-based practitioner who rose from hands-on associate roles to technical leadership, he brings a pragmatic balance of implementation depth and operational ownership that helps turn complex data into actionable insights.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
DIS - Study AbroadBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Carleton CollegeProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gadeuneo/wiki-comps-2020
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Carleton College CS Comps
Contributions:3 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 8 months
carleton
gadeuneo/SCSI-Python
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:64 commits in 3 days
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