Michael Uftring
Senior Data Analyst - Technical Team Lead
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Uftring is a senior data analyst and technical team lead with 11+ years of experience building scalable, distributed big-data systems for networking and research environments. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Scala, Java, Python and JavaScript, and a track record of architecting microservice platforms using Akka and Kafka for telco-scale performance management. Now leading technical analytics at the University of Pennsylvania, he blends production-grade engineering with data science training from an Indiana University master’s to tackle network science, epidemiology, and medical research problems. His career spans early real-time and fraud-detection systems through large-scale monitoring at IBM and Persistent Telecom, showing a consistent focus on performance, reliability, and integration. Colleagues value him for translating complex distributed systems into practical, testable solutions that serve both engineering and scientific teams.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Github Skills (36)
sink9
kafka-connector9
streaming8
api8
confluent8
web-application7
portal7
kafka-connect7
jdbc7
java7
scala7
kafka7
client-library7
database6
databases6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
muftring/iu-datavis
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Pennsieve/publishing-service
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
The Pennsieve Publishing Service
Contributions:140 PRs, 167 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
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