Jay Kaiser
Staff Data Engineer
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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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.
8 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
Github Skills (44)
yaml-configuration10
tabular10
xml10
monitor9
javascript9
data-formats9
json9
scheduler9
python9
text-based9
open-source9
bulk-loader9
orchestration8
collections8
cli8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
edanalytics/edfi_api_client
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 16 reviews, 24 commits in 3 months
edanalytics/edu_wh
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
dbt package for EDU's Ed-Fi data warehouse
Contributions:14 reviews, 35 commits, 14 PRs in 2 months
datawarehousewarehousesqldbtdata-warehouse
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