Summary
Taylor Feinstein is a cloud-focused data engineering leader with nine years of experience building end-to-end data platforms and infrastructure in AWS and Databricks. Currently Vice President at RC Steel and Pipe and Senior Data Engineer at New Math Data, Taylor specializes in infrastructure-as-code, transient Spark clusters, Databricks/DBT integrations, and orchestration with Airflow. Past roles at Slalom and Innowatts show strong hands-on expertise across EMR, Glue, Redshift, Athena, and analytics tooling including Power BI and Tableau. A certified AWS Solutions Architect, Taylor combines deep operational knowledge—born from early GIS and field roles—to pragmatically bridge data engineering, cloud security, and business reporting. Known for templating repeatable ML/data workflows and migrating complex on-prem systems to cloud-native architectures, Taylor brings both systems-level thinking and client-facing delivery experience. Based in Austin, Texas, Taylor’s background in geology and GIS gives an unusual edge in spatial data and complex ETL problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development - Houston Coding Bootcamp, Full Stack Web Development - Houston Coding Bootcamp at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Geology/Earth Science General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Geology/Earth Science General at Montana State University-Bozeman