Patrick Trant
Senior Data Engineer
Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Trant is a Senior Data Engineer with two decades of professional experience and nine years focused on modern data engineering, currently based in Wichita, Kansas. He specializes in building and optimizing ELT pipelines, managing infrastructure-as-code, and authoring thousands of dbt models to deliver reliable analytics at scale. Patrick has driven measurable savings through query and orchestration optimizations—cutting runtime by 64% for high-frequency jobs and eliminating thousands of orphaned assets to reduce storage costs. He pairs strong technical execution (Snowflake, dbt, Terraform, Great Expectations) with pragmatic governance, creating auditable change processes and enterprise-grade data quality frameworks. Known for mentoring peers and automating developer workflows, he has saved teams hundreds of hours via scripting and developer environment improvements. Outside typical engineering duties, he blends long-form systems thinking from legacy enterprise platforms with modern data stack practices to bridge historical technical debt and cloud-native analytics.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Southwestern CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Butler Community College
English
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Github Skills (97)
visual-studio10
editor10
gsl10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
password-generator10
password-manager10
keepass9
spellchecker9
javascript9
security9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pltrant/GSL-Editor
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
GSL Editor extension for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:24 reviews, 132 commits, 31 PRs in 4 years 11 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensioneditor-extensiongsl
pltrant/Test
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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