Zachary Paden
Senior Data Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Paden is a Senior Data Engineer based in Chicago with nine years building data platforms and analytics pipelines across insurance, consulting, and location-intelligence domains. He brings hands-on Python expertise and a pragmatic focus on turning messy business data into reliable, production-ready assets—skills honed at Allstate, Slalom Build, Local Logic, and now Symetra. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise settings, he moves between rapid prototyping and disciplined engineering to deliver measurable outcomes. An applied problem solver and “Pythonista,” he pairs a computer science foundation from UNC Charlotte with a track record of accelerating teams’ data maturity and operationalizing models at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Github Skills (140)
parser10
operation10
python10
metadata10
pandas-dataframe10
mlops10
orchestration10
migrate10
optimizer10
peg10
scheduler10
database-migration10
database-migrations10
observation10
dagster10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PadenZach/pygeohash-fast
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
A fast python geohash library created by wrapping rust.
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 12 pushes in 5 months
PadenZach/CLI-UserParticipation
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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