Simon Parsons
Data Engineering Consultant
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Parsons is a data engineering consultant with eight years’ experience building scalable cloud data platforms and pipelines for politics, science, and conservation. He engineered the infrastructure behind the largest known individual-level meta-analysis in politics—connecting data for 65 million people across hundreds of studies—using AWS, Spark, Python, and SQL, and has deep experience in data governance, blinding, and quality control from DARPA-funded reproducibility work. Simon advises clients on data strategy, privacy, and automation while creating educational resources that translate complex engineering into practical practices for non‑technical teams. His background in ecological research and a Master’s thesis analyzing 30+ years of worldwide data gives him uncommon strength in combining domain science with production ML-ready datasets. Based in Philadelphia, he balances hands-on pipeline construction (dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, Terraform) with a consultant’s focus on robust, auditable data assets.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Data Engineering Nanodegree Graduate, Data Engineering Nanodegree Graduate at UdacityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Wildlife Ecology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Wildlife Ecology at University of Florida
Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
visualization4
python4
data-science3
spotify2
spotify-api2
bokeh2
charts2
data-visualization2
machine-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
elansparsons/gitEdgeEffects
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
NASADatanauts/ADSlabels
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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