James Vorderbruggen
Senior Data Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Vorderbruggen is a Senior Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing data platforms, currently based in Austin while pursuing a weekend MS in Software Engineering at UT Austin. He has driven multi-region Databricks transformations and 5× performance gains at Uplight, preserved critical revenue streams during platform consolidations, and now brings that production-scale expertise to Milliman. Comfortable bridging technical and product needs, he has led ETL modernization, operationalized datasets for ML, and standardized CI/CD and monitoring practices across teams. James also has hands-on consulting experience delivering revenue-recovering systems for startups and a practical knack for automating tedious workflows—he joked that Copilot is his new best friend since vim, hinting at a pragmatic embrace of developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Saint John's University
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JamesVorder/email_nudges
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Desktop python app that sends email nudges to parents based on Aspen reports.
Contributions:13 PRs, 76 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 8 months
reportspythonpython-appdjangoemail
MassMesh/blog
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
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