Jeff Steinmetz
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Steinmetz is a Senior Data Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building scalable cloud-native data platforms, analytics pipelines, and consumer-facing products. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Spark, Scala, Databricks, Airflow, Kubernetes and AWS/GCP with a proven track record of architecting HIPAA-compliant systems for healthcare startups and enterprise media teams. As a former Principal Architect and CTO, he has led platform strategy, built and mentored engineering teams, and shipped production mobile and web products that integrate data science workflows. Jeffrey’s open-source and DevOps contributions include infrastructure and deployment improvements to the well-known Apache Zeppelin notebook project, reflecting his focus on reproducible, collaborative analytics. Outside of engineering he brings rare creative chops—an award-winning music producer and seasoned event/operations leader—which gives him an edge in product intuition and presenting complex ideas to diverse audiences. Practical, strategic and comfortable at both the whiteboard and the command line, he excels at turning ambiguous problems into scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of MinnesotaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
bash10
automation10
automation-testing10
automations10
vagrant10
devops10
ubuntu9
dockers9
docker9
maven8
big-data7
elasticsearch6
apache-zeppelin6
csv6
javas6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/zeppelin
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala and more.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 PRs, 104 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Zeppelin project. Their work involved creating and modifying scripts for setting up and managing a virtual machine environment for development. The user focused on improving the build process and integrating service management, including changes to the `zeppelin-daemon.sh` script and modifications related to supporting R interpreter. Their work included improving documentation for VM setup and deployment, as well as configuring service management tools.
data-drivendata-analyticsanalyticsnosqlflink
jeffsteinmetz/jeffsteinmetz
Dec 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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