Sean Knight

Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer

   Amazon

   Apr 2018 — Present

   In addition to engineering responsibilities, acted as “Bar Raiser” for Amazon from 2018 to present, conducting ~400 candidate interviews and facilitating ~200 post-interview debrief meetings Senior Data Engineer for Bad Actor Disincentives organization (September 2022 to present): Managed day-to-day data warehouse operations for three Redshift clusters as the sole Data Engineer for the 400-person BAD organization; restored cluster viability within first two months by eliminating unnecessary overhead and working with management to increase cluster size Mentored users across the organization by conducting weekly Office Hours sessions and training classes, and developing formal wikis in Redshift SQL best practices Partnered with Data Science team to harden MLOps processes, including building a new ETL-based approach for maintaining key feature inputs to BAD Science models Senior Data Engineer for 3P Seller Pricing organization (April 2019 to September 2022): Worked with Atypical Pricing team and several external stakeholders to manage operational systems during COVID pandemic Consulted with technical team to design improved detail page logging capabilities, to drive improvements in reporting on reference prices displayed to customers; deployed improved data sources and integrated with existing data pipelines, and worked with business to cascade the improved metrics to weekly reports Collaborated with external teams to implement a data pipeline capturing the real-time decisions made by internal systems when rendering featured offer details; eliminated a 15% overstatement of critical metrics caused by imprecisions in the previous version of the pipeline Senior Data Engineer for Subscribe and Save organization (April 2018 to April 2019): Became subject matter expert in source data produced by SnS team; developed and refined data warehouse tables for external consumption, and published to internal data lake system with exhaustive business definitions

Education

• Rice University

  B.A., Economics and Spanish

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Software Development
• Project Planning
• Data Warehousing
• Animation
• Real Time Shaders
• Etl
• Business Objects
• Business Objects Data Integrator
• Game Development
• Real Time
• Database Design
• Integration
• Perforce
• Pipeline Development
• Public Speaking
• Console
• Agile Project Management
• Look Development
• Software Project Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Business Intelligence
• Xbox 360
• Enterprise Software
• Project Management
• Environment Art
• Client Relations
• Data Integration
• Video Games
• Unreal Engine 3
• Sdlc
• Lighting
• Sql
• Agile Methodologies
• Texturing
• Advanced Look Development
• Data Modeling
• Shaders
• Databases
• Scrum