Austin McDaniel

About Austin McDaniel

As a Software Engineer with a Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, a…

Experience

1. Full Stack Software Engineer

   Kpler

   Jan 2023 — Present

   Improve existing data visualization dashboards using multiple front end languages and libraries including Javascript, VueJs, RxJs, and TypeScript - Expand and enhance ETL data pipelines which are used by clients and research teams to product useful insight on commodity market data using Python, Airflow (Astronomer) and PostgreSQL - Expand data pipeline to produce kafka messages related to a specific product ID and filter products published to kafka topic by that product ID to achieve better separation of concerns and not overwhelm the kakfa topic with unnecessary messages- Improve data scrapers to accept new arguments, e.g. data ranges, hosted in Zyte and written using Scrapy framework, test in dev, and deploy in production- Migrate from data sources deprecated API version to the new API version- Build out enterprise scale API - using controller-service-repository pattern - generated controller and REST client by writing OpenAPI specification for the API contract in order to create a scalable, maintainable front to back feature with clean separation of concerns- Build out observables in rxjs for web-app to allow dynamic filtering of components based on filter state and syncing between components and page query parameters.

Education

• Georgia State University

  Engineering

• College of Computing at Georgia Tech

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science