Ryan Swanstrom
Data Engineer
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Swanstrom is a data engineer and strategist with 12 years of experience designing data architectures, pipelines, and analytics solutions across finance, cloud consulting, and academia. He currently builds data warehouses and pipelines at Heritage Bank NA while running Swanstrom Analytics, where he has delivered automated Azure data platforms, Power BI reporting, and machine learning-informed product and treatment predictions. His background includes training roles at Microsoft, leading large-scale ingestion projects handling billions of messages, and founding a South Dakota data science practice—evidence of both hands-on engineering and team-building. Ryan holds advanced degrees in computational science, statistics, and information assurance, and has translated that academic rigor into practical solutions for banks, startups, and enterprise clients. Based in Sioux Falls with his wife and five children, he brings Midwestern practicality and a knack for turning complex analytics into usable business tools. Colleagues describe him simply as a “Data Guy” who makes enterprise-scale data work reliably in production.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Math Information Assurance, M.S. Math Information Assurance at Iowa State UniversityB.S. Math Computer Science, B.S. Math Computer Science at University of Sioux FallsDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Science and Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Science and Statistics at South Dakota State University
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ryanswanstrom/awesome-datascience-colleges
Jun 2015 - Dec 2020
A list of colleges and universities offering degrees in data science.
Contributions:2 reviews, 185 commits, 65 PRs in 5 years 6 months
data-analysispythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learning
ryanswanstrom/dissertation-scoring-sdo
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:130 commits, 1 push in 5 months
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