W Downing
Senior Data Architect Engineer
Brownsburg, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolW Downing is a Senior Data Architect Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native analytics and automation solutions across public health, transportation, and agriculture. He blends atmospheric science research from Purdue with hands-on engineering to design data models, migrate organizations to Databricks/Azure, and automate workflows that reduce manual effort and improve reliability. At state health agencies he led adoption of Unity Catalog and developed Python tooling and reproducible processes; at Corteva he progressed rapidly into senior architect responsibilities. He’s comfortable across Spark, PySpark, ADF and Git-based governance and often focuses on making complex systems accessible to non-technical users through documentation, office hours, and reusable libraries. Notably, his background in weather–traffic research informs pragmatic approaches to large-scale geospatial and time-series data challenges.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Atmospheric Sciences, Master of Science - MS Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University
English
Github Skills (38)
validation9
npm-package9
parse9
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numeric9
nodejs8
r-package7
netcdf7
javascript7
pandas7
python7
spatial6
oceanography6
dask6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
w-logan-downing/IN-DNR-Water-Well-Record-Collector
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
basic-pythonpythonpdfindianaids
Foxhound013/GDSP-Tutorials
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
This repository serves as a home for all tutorials developed for Purdue's GeoData Science for Professionals (GDSP) Masters of Science Program.
Contributions:10 PRs, 64 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
geodatapythonmasterssciencepurdue
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