Joyce Lau
Senior Data Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoyce Lau is a Senior Data Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of focused experience delivering high-impact data solutions across consumer and enterprise products. She has led requirement analysis, technical design, and implementation at scale—most recently joining Thumbtack after eight years as Principal Data Engineer at Lumosity—bringing deep expertise in big data, RDBMS architecture, and SQL performance tuning. Known as an analytical problem-solver, she consistently translates ambiguous business needs into reliable, performant data pipelines and actionable analytics. Her background includes long-term senior engineering roles dating back to CA Technologies, giving her rare continuity in both legacy and modern data platforms. A UC Davis computer science graduate with a strong GPA, she pairs disciplined engineering rigor with a knack for practical innovations that reduce query costs and improve data freshness.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.8 at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (6)
parser8
warehouse8
python6
analytics3
snowflake2
dagster2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lumoslabs/pyxmex
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
Python parser for American Express transaction reconciliation files
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 1 month
parserpython
lumoslabs/aleph
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Empower Curiosity / Redshift analytics platform
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 5 commits in 22 days
analyticswarehouseredshiftempowersnowflake
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