Paul Claessen
Senior Data Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Claessen is a Senior Data Engineer with 11+ years building data-intensive systems and production ETL/ELT pipelines across AWS, Snowflake, Cassandra, MongoDB and relational sources. He combines hands-on Python/Pandas work moving terabytes of telemetry and geospatial data with infrastructure-level ownership—managing EC2, load balancers, RDS and observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana and Percona. Paul has driven end-to-end solutions from CDC and Kafka-based streaming to serverless orchestration and dbt-enabled transform workflows, and has prototyped graph ingestion for Neo4j and predictive maintenance models that translated raw telemetry into operational savings. His cross-industry experience spans telecom, fleet management, publishing, insurance and CPG, and he’s notable for operationalizing DevOps practices (instance patching, SSH key rotation, full-cluster cloning) to make analytics platforms safe and scalable. Based in Austin, he blends deep engineering with pragmatic architecture and a track record of turning complex data into usable business insights.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at New Mexico State University
Github Skills (53)
sqlite8
voxel-engine8
database8
voxel8
sandbox8
cordova8
postgresql7
react-native7
cockroachdb7
mariadb7
mysql7
sap-hana7
javascript7
nodejs7
terasology7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Dane99/ExploTech
Jun 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
csci-3312-f19-game-dev/Iris-for-Persephone
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Erebus Studios
Contributions:48 commits, 38 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 month
studios
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