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Michael Forster
Senior Data Engineer specializing in ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration platforms
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Data engineer/software engineer who led an end-to-end ETL/ELT pipeline at Pearson processing millions of rows of student data nightly, including client-side data prep/validation, SFTP/API ingestion, staging-based SQL validation/transforms, and production loading. Built reliability features like configurable per-client validation thresholds, detailed reporting, concurrency throttling via a custom queue, and multi-source merge/backfill logic to keep nightly loads running even when sources fail.
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Key Strengths
- Owned end-to-end ETL/ELT pipeline ingesting millions of student records
- Built configurable, per-client data validation with thresholds that halt loads and generate detailed issue reports
- Designed custom queuing to control concurrency and prevent nightly processing overload
- Implemented multi-source merge logic with fallback to most recent successful loads to maintain continuity
- Shipped an ingestion API integrated into existing client workflows and validation framework
- Incremental rollout approach using staging tests with real client data before live deployment
Reference Highlights
- Reliable and always available to address issues
- Strong SQL skills
- Strongest Python developer on the team
- Delivers high-quality solutions with minimal supervision
- Proactively addresses operational concerns
- Built tools that enabled automated data loading for many clients with minimal manpower
- Designed and implemented a reliable API-based integration that met client needs
- Generated positive customer response through delivered solution
- Clear, specific error reporting when bad data is provided
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