Yaakov Bressler
Senior Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYaakov Bressler is a Senior Data Engineer in New York with seven years of hands-on experience building secure, high-throughput data platforms and pragmatic data infrastructure. He has driven major cost and performance wins—most notably optimizing Snowflake usage to cut costs by over 70% and engineering MongoDB extraction at millions of documents per second via Atlas Data Lake/Federation. Yaakov combines platform engineering (Airflow, DBT, Snowflake) with product-minded delivery, having led real-time ingestion, MLOps tooling initiatives, and high-performance data APIs for quant teams. A former data scientist and startup co-founder, he brings an experimental, truth-seeking approach to engineering decisions and a background that spans research in biomedical labs to founding a marketing-tech startup. He mentors engineers and serves as a subject-matter expert, favoring reliability, offline testing, and pragmatic refactors that scale.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry at City University of New York-Brooklyn College
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Github Skills (153)
fastapi10
parser10
python10
json-schema10
logos10
swagger10
data-parsing10
svg10
asgi10
branding10
pydantic10
openapi10
iconic10
async10
validation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Open-Broadway-Data/MVP-FrontEnd
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
FrontEnd application for OBD. Flask app running on wsgi server via nginx.
Contributions:8 reviews, 18 PRs, 408 pushes in 9 months
nginxpythonwsgi-serverflask-appflask
Open-Broadway-Data/Data-Collection
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Scalable web scraping for all Broadway data (ever).
Contributions:7 PRs, 154 pushes, 8 branches in 9 months
scalableeverscrapingbroadwayweb-scraping
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