Rowdy Howell
Vice President Of Data Engineering, Platform
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRowdy Howell is a hands-on technical leader with 10 years of experience building data platforms and advanced analytics, now serving as Vice President of Data Engineering, Platform at NationsBenefits. He blends deep machine learning and software engineering roots—shaped by progressive roles at Dialexa and early graphics engineering internships at Samsung—with practical platform architecture and team leadership. Rowdy has moved from individual contributor and teaching roles into senior management while consistently delivering value-driving, production-ready systems. Based in Bellevue, Washington, he pairs a programmer’s curiosity with an architect’s discipline, often translating experimental ML work into scalable, business-facing pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (92)
pypy10
jython10
cffi9
cython9
ember-addon9
virtualenv9
development-environment9
pypi9
wkhtmltopdf8
stylelint8
python8
ide8
cml7
tournament7
pipeline7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RowdyHowell/portfolio-website
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
RowdyHowell/rl-demo
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 months
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