Nicolas Gagnon
Senior Data Engineer
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Gagnon is a Senior Data Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, secure data platforms and productionizing ML/analytics workflows across fintech and global consumer businesses. He has led Snowflake/dbt platform builds, high-throughput ETL with PySpark/Dataproc, and end-to-end CI/CD and data-quality tooling that delivered measurable time savings and accuracy improvements. Nicolas combines deep technical delivery—designing event-tracking frameworks, RBAC-driven security, and automated onboarding pipelines—with hands-on mentorship and hiring experience across distributed teams. Comfortable in cloud-native and serverless patterns (Terraform, SQS/KEDA, Airflow, Databricks), he’s also guided cross-regional stakeholders to adopt data mesh practices. A former neuroinformatics researcher turned digital nomad, he brings curiosity and multidisciplinary problem-solving to bridge research-grade analysis with production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Behavioural Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Behavioural Neuroscience at The University of British Columbia
English, French, German
Github Skills (4)
assembly4
java3
rest2
restful-api2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
scveloso/Stealthy-Sam
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:73 commits in 2 months
NicGagnon/nicgagnon.github.io
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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