Tom Walter
Head Of Data Services - APAC
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolTom Walter is a seasoned data engineering leader with 20+ years in software engineering and over a decade focused on building data platforms, warehouses, lakes and BI capabilities across enterprise environments. As Head of Data Services APAC at SEEK he runs distributed teams in Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur, delivering an AWS-based platform that powers product, analytics and AI/ML use cases and a curated analytics warehouse. He established SEEK’s first data engineering and warehousing capability and led a major migration off a legacy Microsoft stack to team-managed cloud infrastructure. Earlier roles at Hitwise/Experian saw him architect large-scale Hadoop and MPP database solutions while leading cross-functional delivery teams. A hands-on technologist, he contributes to open-source Metabase by improving metadata sync between databases and BI tooling—reflecting a focus on data documentation and pragmatic engineering. Based in Melbourne, he combines deep technical breadth with proven people and delivery leadership across the APAC region.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Multimedia Computer Programming Sound Production, Bachelor of Multimedia Computer Programming Sound Production at Griffith UniversityBrisbane Boys Grammar
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Github Skills (10)
clojure10
h210
postgresql10
clojure-cli10
sql9
databases8
data-analysis8
database8
business-intelligence8
reporting-services7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on implementing column and table comment syncing functionalities within the Metabase project. This involved modifying code to integrate with various database drivers, specifically H2 and PostgreSQL, to synchronize column descriptions with database comments. The user added new methods and updated existing ones within the `generic_sql` and `sync` modules to handle comment retrieval and synchronization. These changes enhanced the business intelligence tool by improving metadata management and data documentation.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
EvilPuppetMaster/metabase
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
analyticssimplestsqlfastestyum
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