Surya Dutta
Senior Data Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSurya Dutta is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building data platforms at Shopify after leading analytics and data platform efforts at SpotHero and McMaster-Carr. He holds a Master of Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley and a physics degree from Yale, blending rigorous quantitative training with practical engineering. Surya specializes in end-to-end data infrastructure—streaming (Kafka), data lakes and warehouses (Iceberg/Trino/Redshift), Airflow orchestration, DBT modeling, and production-grade monitoring and alerting. He has a track record of enabling self-serve analytics, mentoring and growing early-career engineers, and delivering high-availability pipelines that translate executive metrics into actionable insights. Notably, he has built low-code tooling for automated SQL materializations and led cross-functional conversations to turn product needs into dependable data services.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science, Master of Information and Data Science at UC Berkeley School of InformationBachelor's Degree Physics (Intensive), Bachelor's Degree Physics (Intensive) at Yale University
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Github Skills (18)
google-cloud-dataproc10
lifecycle10
kubernetes-operator10
spark9
apache-spark9
kubernetes9
operator9
apache8
git-addons8
ising-model7
version-control7
android5
php4
database3
java2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thetouroflove/thetouroflove.github.io
Sep 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
suryadutta/personal-website
Jul 2015 - Nov 2024
Personal Website
Contributions:6 PRs, 122 pushes, 13 branches in 9 years 5 months
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