Kirk Hansen
Data Engineer
Des Moines Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKirk Hansen is a Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building data platforms end-to-end, currently designing and operating data solutions at Corteva Agriscience from raw infrastructure through agentic AI layers. He brings a practical background spanning software development for B2B web apps and laboratory process work, which informs a detail-oriented approach to data quality and operational reliability. Kirk has progressed through roles that blend hands-on engineering with process improvement, consistently finding simple automations that save time and reduce friction. Based in the Des Moines area, he pairs a BA in Biology with deep on-the-job data engineering experience, giving him a unique perspective on applied data in scientific and industrial contexts.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Luther College
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Github Skills (200)
python10
operation10
data-manipulation10
command-line-interface10
databases10
metadata10
hadoop10
bigtable10
weatherstack10
declarative10
spatial10
trino10
sql-query10
javascript10
prestodb10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kirkhansen/rcv
May 2017 - Jul 2022
Ranked Choice Voting app for free use.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
reactrankedandroid-appranked-choicevoting-app
kirkhansen/pandas
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Contributions:50 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
polarspythondatalabeled-datamanipulation
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