Pete Fein
Founder & Data Engineer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPete Fein is a founder and data engineer with 17 years of professional experience and over 20 years of Python programming, helping technical clients solve hard data, web, search, and biz/ops problems through his consultancy Snakedev. He is a data architect and trainer who has spoken at PyCon US ten times, organizes the Pittsburgh PyData meetup, and is authoring The Data Engineering Toolkit for Pearson. Earlier roles include scaling Juju.com's job search to over a million monthly users as CTO and building real-time trading systems combining Python and C++ at finance firms, highlighting his ability to bridge data engineering and low-latency systems. Pete combines hands-on implementation with teaching and community leadership, making complex pipelines understandable and maintainable. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs academic grounding from the University of Chicago in CS and economics with practical entrepreneurial experience. An understated strength is his track record of translating trading-floor precision into robust production data systems.
16 years of coding experience
B.A, Computer Science/Economics, B.A, Computer Science/Economics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (200)
crawler10
data-exploration10
data-analytics10
embedded-database10
data-science10
apache10
filesystem10
visualization10
data-modeling10
apache-superset10
plotly-dash10
python10
message-queue10
database-management10
bokeh10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wearpants/playerpiano
Apr 2010 - Apr 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
shellpythonpython3doctests
wearpants/wherestheparty
May 2011 - Mar 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
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