Tanya Whyte
Senior Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTanya Whyte is a senior software and data engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a proven track record building data-intensive backend systems that process hundreds of millions of events. She has led teams and architected production data platforms at Prodigy Education—responsible for pipelines handling 60M+ student answers per day, real-time cheating detection, ML model CI/CD, and a Databricks+Kafka-driven email platform. Comfortable across infrastructure, data, and application layers, she designs scalable ETL/streaming systems, reverse ETL services, and production-grade observability using tools like Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Terraform, Kubernetes and PostgreSQL. Her background in political science and years of academic research inform a data-first, empirically driven approach to product problems and feature engineering. Now at ClickHouse, she continues to focus on high-throughput backend and analytical workloads, blending hands-on engineering with mentorship and developer-experience improvements. An unusual strength: she pairs deep academic rigor in NLP and measurement from her PhD work with practical MLOps and platform-building experience that accelerates ML-powered products into production.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Political Science, Master of Arts - MA Political Science at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
twhyte/hansardanalysis
Jul 2013 - Sep 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 2 months
twhyte/lipad
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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