William Surles
Senior Principal Data Engineer
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Surles is a Principal Data Engineer with 12 years of experience building distributed data platforms, designing data warehouses, and turning product metrics into actionable business insight. He has led data engineering and data science efforts across SaaS and product teams—deploying reliable pipelines on AWS, Spark, Kubernetes, and Airflow while enabling analytics via Redash, Tableau, and Grafana. Comfortable in both R and Python, he’s solved ML and experimentation problems, instrumented metric collection for feature launches, and presented findings directly to senior leadership. Based in Boulder, he pairs technical depth with a track record of shipping data products for sales and engineering teams, and outside work he tutors middle schoolers in math and science and explores the mountains on his bike—an indicator of his patient teaching style and appetite for complex, long-haul problems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Clemson UniversityData Science Specialization (Johns Hopkins University), Data Science Specialization (Johns Hopkins University) at CourseraPython and R Career Track Certificates Data Science, Python and R Career Track Certificates Data Science at DataCampMS Engineering, MS Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (35)
r9
shinydashboard9
shiny9
data-manipulation9
dplyr9
grammar9
datatables9
reactivity8
rstudio7
fomantic-ui7
html6
rmarkdown6
web-development6
css6
postgresql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wsurles/shiny_workshop
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:98 commits in 5 months
data-analysispythontimelinetimeline-datashiny
wsurles/github_hot_or_not
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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