Jay Kaiser
Staff Data Engineer
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJay Kaiser is a Staff Data Engineer with eight years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines using Spark, Python, Scala, and SQL, grounded in an MS/BS in Computational Linguistics from Indiana University. He has transformed terabytes of messy game telemetry and education data into reliable analytics assets, balancing performance, readability, and relational design for downstream analysts and data scientists. Comfortable working with remote teams, he has progressed through roles at ZeniMax and Education Analytics, delivering production systems that integrate diverse files, APIs, and databases. His NLP and corpus-based background gives him a distinctive edge for structuring human-centered data products and prototyping semantic solutions. Colleagues rely on him for persistent, collaborative problem solving and pragmatic system trade-offs that prioritize long-term maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS / Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS / Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Linguistics at Indiana University BloomingtonData Science, Data Science at The Data Incubator
English, German, Korean, Esperanto
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Github Skills (29)
xml10
javascript9
jsonl9
json9
yaml-configuration9
open-source9
bulk-loader9
cli8
python8
automation8
machine-learning8
scheduler8
dbt8
data-engineering8
data-science8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
edanalytics/ea_airflow_util
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Utilities for Airflow projects
Contributions:8 releases, 32 reviews, 51 commits in 9 months
airflow
edanalytics/earthmover
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
CLI tool for transforming collections of tabular source data into a variety of text-based data formats via YAML configuration and Jinja templates.
Contributions:5 releases, 120 reviews, 107 commits in 4 months
cliyaml-configurationcsv-filesdata-engineeringjson
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