Sven Pedersen
Senior Data Engineer
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolSven Pedersen is a senior software engineer specializing in data-driven cloud architectures with 13 years of professional experience and over 20 years of hands-on engineering across industry and research roles. He builds scalable, secure systems on GCP/Azure/AWS and has deep expertise in data pipelines, geospatial databases (PostGIS), and DevOps tooling like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and Ansible. Equally comfortable across Python, Go, JavaScript, Ruby and Java, Sven blends full‑stack development with ML/analytics to turn messy data into actionable insights and reliable services. He’s repeatedly improved operational efficiency—rewriting pipelines to be configuration-driven and optimizing ETL for cost and reliability—and mentors teams to raise delivery quality. Based in Oakland, he brings a rare background in applied linguistics and language-focused tooling, which informs his thoughtful approach to data extraction and metadata design.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Applied Linguistics, Certificate Applied Linguistics at Dallas International UniversityA.S. Computer Science, A.S. Computer Science at Tompkins Cortland Community CollegeB.S. Information Science and Design, B.S. Information Science and Design at Empire State UniversityApplied Data Science Program: Leveraging AI for Effective Decision-Making Machine Learning / Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Applied Data Science Program: Leveraging AI for Effective Decision-Making Machine Learning / Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at MIT Professional Education
Norwegian, Spanish, French, Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (187)
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haskell10
graphql-api10
clojure10
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access-control10
data-visualization10
database10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sventech/sventech.github.io
May 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 8 months
sobanuza/num2words
Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
Modules to convert numbers to words. 42 --> forty-two
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch, 4 comments in 3 years 2 months
nlppythonphoneticswordsconvert-numbers-to-words
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