Tim Patterson
Principal Engineer at Marigold
Wānaka, Otago, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Patterson is a Principal Engineer and data-savvy polyglot based in Wānaka, New Zealand, with 12 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and analytics tooling. He has progressed from hands-on big data engineering to leading and mentoring teams at Marigold, where he now drives loyalty, profile, personalization and analytics initiatives. Strong in SQL and AWS/Azure ecosystems, Tim has architected data lakes, migrations, and realtime integrations using technologies like Kafka, Spark, Redshift, Glue and Airflow. His background includes deep Hadoop/Hive internals and custom ETL work for high-volume game and transactional datasets, giving him a rare combination of low-level systems knowledge and product-focused engineering. Known for blending leadership with hands-on delivery, he frequently moves between coding, architecture and people growth. Based in a small New Zealand town, he brings big‑system experience with a pragmatic, customer-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BAppSc Telecommunications, BAppSc Telecommunications at University of Otago
Github Skills (46)
kafka-connect10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
sink10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
cdc9
redhat9
kafka-producer9
debezium9
binlog9
database9
data-capture9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tim-patterson/jsonsql
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
A simple cli to run sql against json
Contributions:20 releases, 139 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 10 months
sql-parsersqljqjsonsimple-cli
tim-patterson/incresql
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
A database to explore the incremental materialized views space
Contributions:94 commits, 76 PRs, 145 pushes in 2 years
materialized-viewsincrementalexploresqldatabase
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