Jonathan Porter
Senior Data Engineer
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Porter is a mission-driven Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience designing cost-efficient, production-grade analytics platforms and streaming systems. Based in Dallas, he builds self-service BI and real-time analytics using Snowflake, dbt, AWS, Terraform, and Rockset, and has a track record of saving organizations significant costs by consolidating legacy pipelines and warehouses. He led data platform strategy and operationalization for the City of Boston—delivering automated spatial pipelines, powering the open data portal, and introducing data quality and docs automation. Jonathan is active in the data engineering community as a manager and contributor, including front-end improvements to the popular community-maintained data-engineering-wiki to improve usability and navigation. Comfortable bridging product, engineering, and civic tech, he pairs business training in finance with applied leadership studies from Harvard Extension to mentor teams and formalize best practices. Colleagues know him for pragmatic technical choices that prioritize observability, maintainability, and tangible public impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance and Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance and Business Administration at Boston University Questrom School of BusinessLeadership and Management, Leadership and Management at Harvard Extension School
English, Chinese, German
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Github Skills (16)
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data-set8
data-model8
data-engineering8
price-data8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
data-engineering-community/data-engineering-wiki
May 2021 - Jan 2023
The best place to learn data engineering. Built and maintained by the data engineering community.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 161 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on customizing the user interface and navigation of the data engineering wiki. Their work included adding a logo, modifying the footer, and implementing custom navigation logic within the Obsidian Publish environment. They also updated the folder links and notes to enhance usability and presentation. This involved changes to both CSS and JavaScript files to achieve the desired visual and functional updates.
pythondataengineeringdata-platformdata-engineer
vigaeatery/git-workflows
Sep 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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