Kerry Nakayama
Business Analytics at Activision
Lawndale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKerry Nakayama is a business analytics leader with 10+ years of experience architecting analytics platforms, pipelines, and performance reporting for startups and large tech teams. She has led decision science and operational analytics at Apple Services and built end-to-end data infrastructure—connecting Unity game telemetry through AWS, Snowflake, DBT and Tableau—for products at Robin Games and other studios. As founder of Nakayaka LLC she consults and trains teams on analytics best practices, P&L forecasting, and tooling orchestration (Airflow, GitHub, Snowflake), translating technical systems into executive-ready insights. Her background in both hands-on engineering and people management (managing data teams at Age of Learning and training professionals at USAA) gives her a rare mix of pragmatic engineering, product sensibility, and instructional skill. Located in Lawndale, CA, she pairs a Master’s in Data Science with a creative problem-solving approach honed across gaming, media, and services businesses.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Tulane UniversityMaster’s Degree Data Science, Master’s Degree Data Science at Southern Methodist UniversityBS math and studio art, BS math and studio art at Miami University
Github Skills (7)
data-quality5
spark4
data-infrastructure4
sql4
snowflake3
data-engineering2
data-pipeline2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kerrynakayama/developintelligence_data_engineering
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
3 day Data engineering with Snowflake focus
Contributions:256 commits, 7 PRs, 257 pushes in 1 month
datawarehousedata-qualitysqldaydata-engineering
ferninphilly/developintelligence_snowflake
May 2020 - Jun 2020
This is the snowflake material for the Develop Intelligence Snowflake course
Contributions:38 PRs, 42 pushes, 38 branches in 22 days
snowflakeintelligence
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