Tony Coconate is a seasoned data and software engineering leader with 18 years of experience and 14 years in hands-on engineering roles, currently a Staff Customer Solution Engineer at Google. He designs cloud-ready, large-scale architectures and data lakes for top-tier advertising clients, blending expertise in ETL, real-time pipelines, anomaly detection, and GenAI-driven video analysis. Tony has led cross-functional teams and interim delivery operations, hiring and mentoring engineers while driving product-focused engineering and UX work across mobile, web, and streaming domains. His background spans startups to enterprise—shaping products for MSG, MLB, Groupon, and Tribune—so he balances rapid feature delivery with robust, production-grade systems. Comfortable from notebooks and model fine-tuning to Kafka/Beam/Cloud workflows, he brings a rare mix of front-end UX sensibility and deep data-platform engineering. Based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, he quietly pairs big-picture architecture with pragmatic, metric-driven execution.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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