Kelly Wachtel
Senior Data Engineer II
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolKelly Wachtel is a Senior Data Engineer with nine years of experience building data platforms and analytics at M1 and Convergint Technologies, combining strong dbt, SQL, and Python skills with visualization expertise in Tableau and PowerBI. She progressed from web application development and data science into senior data engineering roles, bringing a practical full-stack perspective to ETL, modeling, and BI. With a Master’s in Computer Science from Northwestern and a background in computer engineering, she blends academic rigor with hands-on delivery of production data pipelines. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, Kelly is comfortable bridging engineering and business stakeholders to turn messy data into actionable insights. An early career focus on CAD and instrumentation suggests a persistent knack for solving low-level, system-oriented problems even while operating at the analytics layer.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Indiana University–Purdue University IndianapolisBachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI Indianapolis, INMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (38)
flask9
react8
python8
todolist7
visualization7
analytics7
apache7
self-contained7
data-analysis7
transform7
data-visualization7
yellow7
dbt-packages6
slack6
data-modeling6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cs394-w19/crush-it
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
A financial quiz app for cs394 - Team Yellow/Gold
Contributions:40 commits, 22 PRs, 36 pushes in 21 days
financialquiz-appjavascriptgoldyellow
cs394-w19/homie-yellow
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
An organizer app for roommates
Contributions:23 PRs, 42 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
reacttodolistelectronroommatesplitwise
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