Summary
Namaste Reid is a data engineering leader with a decade of experience building reliable, product-focused data platforms and high-performing engineering teams. Currently leading data engineering at Novi Labs, he previously matured DataOps, CDC pipelines, and time-series Snowflake schemas at Bonusly to deliver analytics as a dependable product and accelerate delivery through micro-frontends and Data APIs. He has a track record of scaling teams and systems—from bootstrapping engineering at Automox as an early hire to directing cross-organizational launches at HomeAdvisor—and excels at marrying software engineering rigor (CI/CD, Lean) with pragmatic product discovery. Based in Paonia, Colorado, he combines systems-level technical depth (Databricks, AWS, distributed data pipelines) with people-first management, having built nearshore hiring pipelines and fast onboarding for senior talent. A creative technologist by disposition, he’s comfortable inventing unconventional solutions to knotty integration and delivery problems while keeping execution precise and measurable.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Software Engineering, B.S., Software Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder