Robert Sanders
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Sanders is a Big Data and Data & AI Solutions Architect with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable data platforms and web applications from Phoenix, Arizona. He blends deep expertise across Hadoop/Spark ecosystems, streaming and messaging (Kafka, Zookeeper, Flume), and a wide language/toolset (Java/Scala/Python, SQL/NoSQL, Airflow, Spark, Hive) to turn messy data into production-ready pipelines. Comfortable across infrastructure, security (Kerberos, Sentry) and DevOps, he has contributed operational Airflow maintenance DAGs to open-source projects, improving logging, cleanup and resiliency for critical workflows. A pragmatic engineer with a software-engineering degree from Arizona State University, he pairs enterprise-grade architecture with frequent hands-on coding and configuration management. Notably, his background spans embedded and web stacks as well as big data ops—an uncommon combination that helps bridge application owners and data platform teams.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with a focus in Software Engineering, 3.48, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with a focus in Software Engineering, 3.48 at Arizona State University
English
Github Skills (6)
workflow-engine10
devops10
python10
airflow10
cicd9
bash9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
teamclairvoyant/airflow-maintenance-dags
Dec 2016 - Nov 2020
A series of DAGs/Workflows to help maintain the operation of Airflow
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 37 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to maintaining and expanding Airflow-related workflows within the repository. Their commits added and refined DAGs for database cleanup, log management, and task killing, all critical for Airflow's operational health. These changes included improvements to the logging, configuration, and error handling within these maintenance DAGs. Furthermore, the user modified the configuration backup process for Airflow.
airflowdagworkflowairflow-maintenance-dagsmaintenance
teamclairvoyant/intro-to-spark
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 33 pushes in 3 months
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