Ethan Pribble

About

Backend/data engineer with strong authorization and compliance-domain experience: led a phased migration from a simplistic role model to modern RBAC on a Python serverless stack (Auth0 + AWS Lambda/API Gateway), coordinating changes across 5 repos with extensive manual and automated validation. Previously built and operated custom ETL pipelines (Airflow + Groovy/Java on Spark/YARN/Hadoop) to normalize messy customer email/chat/voice data for NLP-driven financial compliance indicators, including complex email journaling metadata enrichment and large-scale remediation reprocessing after production bugs.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Designed and rolled out multi-repo RBAC/JWT authorization changes with no downtime via phased migration
• Deep practical authorization expertise (RBAC, JWT claims, tenant switching, permissions + data access filters)
• Strong production incident ownership: root cause analysis, targeted backfill/reprocessing plan, and customer remediation support
• ETL/pipeline expertise across diverse unstructured communications data (email/chat/voice) for compliance/NLP use cases
• Hands-on data quality problem solving (non-standard RFC 822 emails, header encoding issues, Exchange journaling metadata enrichment, deduplication)
• Creates thorough manual cross-system test plans when automation coverage is insufficient; documents and executes end-to-end validation
• Customer-facing collaboration and stakeholder management during high-risk migrations and compliance-sensitive fixes

Reference Highlights

• Extremely thoughtful and capable in architecture and implementation
• Delivered a core feature rollout (Looker dashboard folder management) sought by users
• Quickly ramped up on AWS Lambda/DynamoDB and understood weaknesses/gotchas
• Strong attention to detail
• Careful unit and integration testing
• Thorough validation in dev/staging in addition to automated tests
• Effective at extending features in a highly legacy system
• Strong risk management mindset during migrations
• Contributed to successful idempotent just-in-time backfill strategy
• Able to debug production issues using Sumo Logic
• Respectful, engaged communicator with stakeholders
• Asks good clarifying questions to unpack needs
• Produces solid technical documentation (comments, READMEs, Confluence proposals)