Preston Sharpe
Data Engineer
Summary
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RockstarPreston Rakovsky is a software engineer and founder with eight years of experience specializing in distributed storage and data systems, including Kafka, Cassandra, and Postgres. He progressed from internships at Dell, ING, Poloniex and Noom into full-time engineering roles at Datadog where he worked on storage, query, and resource systems. Now leading his own creator brand with over 1.4 million followers and 100M+ monthly views, he uniquely blends deep backend engineering chops with product instincts and audience-driven storytelling. As a cloud data engineer, he has a track record of performance optimization, systems integration, and production-grade reliability. Based in the New York metro area and trained in Computer Science and Finance at Northeastern, he moves comfortably between low-level infrastructure work and high-impact product narratives. Few engineers combine distributed systems expertise with a large consumer-facing platform that amplifies technical ideas to a broad audience.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (114)
python10
terraform10
data-gov10
infrastructure10
inventory-management10
stack10
provisioning10
ansible10
kubernetes10
open-data10
data-dashboard10
vcenter10
itil9
catalog9
docker-compose9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GoCodeColorado/GoCodeColorado-kbase-public
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Helpful resources for teams including metadata documentation, diagrams, instructions, data stories and more. Public repo items are provided for Go Code Colorado Competitors and the public by State of Colorado Data Stewards and Go Code Colorado InKind Partners.
Contributions:93 commits, 10 PRs, 101 pushes in 1 month
golangdata-storiesdiagramspublic-repoinstructions
pjsharpe07/RRCC_CSC1019
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:14 PRs, 27 pushes, 11 branches in 9 months
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