Robert Spurrier

About Robert Spurrier

Software engineer in the data space. Interests: distributed systems, data, machine…

Experience

1. Data Engineer Consultant

   Progressive Insurance

   Mar 2019 — Present

   Currently working in Telematics to optimize and scale sensor data workloads & algorithms.\\\\n\\\\nWorked to make dbt Cloud available to the enterprise to further democratize data flow, reduce process, enable greater discoverability, governance, and quality in our data pipelines.\\\\n\\\\nIntroduced Snowflake into the enterprise and built self-service automation to make managing objects and access repeatable, scalable, and secure. Built OAuth authentication experiences for legacy analytic tooling to ensure we can support as many tools as possible in our transition. Built observability solutions to track and alert on warehouse spend. Built training and documentation. Worked directly with customers to migrate onto the platform, cutting down their workload processing times from days & weeks to minutes.\\\\n\\\\nBuilt resilient machine learning model services in AWS that sat in the quoting flow at Progressive.com and new model development pipeline tools in Python. The combination of the two helped quoting data scientists experiment quicker than ever and drive millions in sales over a legacy SPSS implementation.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioinformatics

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Mapreduce
• Clojurescript
• Java
• Apache Spark
• Hadoop
• Emacs Lisp
• Data Mining
• Analytics
• Software Development
• Ethical Hacking
• R
• Sql
• Big Data
• Machine Learning
• Nlp
• Data Visualization
• Mysql
• Python
• Healthcare Analytics
• Data Analysis
• Clojure
• Javascript