Robert West
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRobert West is a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager specializing in data engineering with 12 years of experience building scalable data platforms and analytics pipelines in healthcare and finance. He has led greenfield platform efforts—designing multi-tenant architectures on GCP, implementing serverless Spark and Airflow orchestration, and automating infrastructure with Terraform—while reducing processing times dramatically through pragmatic engineering. Known for mentoring teams and translating stakeholder needs into deliverable roadmaps, he pairs technical depth (Python, Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes) with strong product and cross-functional communication. His background in quantitative finance and computational finance gives him a rare blend of rigorous analytical modeling and production engineering, and he often builds local tooling to enable reliable offline development. Based in New York, he balances a builder’s mindset with people-first leadership and a creative streak reflected in hobbies like guitar and yoga.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computational Finance, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computational Finance at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of BusinessBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons) Mathematics at University of Kent
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
audiocontext10
python10
pandas10
data-science10
data-analysis10
manipulation10
plaid10
frame10
dataframes9
data-manipulation9
data-structures9
redux8
java8
nodejs8
ruby7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alphacas/GithubPortfolio
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
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Contributions:2 reviews, 60 commits, 31 PRs in 10 days
nextjsreacttypescript
robertdavidwest/pandas
Jan 2015 - Nov 2019
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
polarspythondatalabeled-datamanipulation
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