Yeab Wondimu

About Yeab Wondimu

I am a data engineering leader with experience building data solutions for business from the ground up. I have extensive experience building data warehouses for analytical reporting, online data solutions for Machine Learning and AI use cases, and building source of truth data sources for executive leadership reporting. I am always looking for challenging problems to solve and ways to expand my knowledge and technical expertise. My technical knowledge includes programming languages such as Python, C++, Java, SQL, Apache Spark, Databricks, Airflow, AWS Cloud solutions, Snowflake, and others.My professional goal is to build high quality datasets that enable my business partners to make informed business decisions quickly and at the same time, push myself to seek newer and more difficult problems to solve.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering Manager, Big Data

   Zillow

   Oct 2023 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Leading a team of 11 onshore and 13 offshore data engineers that build ETLs for high-quality datasets serving Zillow’s Premier Agent, Home Loans, and Agent Software and Advertising businesses• Expanded team scope to build a Data Warehouse to streamline data for Zillow’s Mortgage and Home Loan business alongside our For Sale buyer business resulting in business customers receiving high quality data with the flexibility to adapt datasets in the Data Warehouse as the business evolves. Reduced data outage frequency by 60% and improved data latency by 50%• Led the delivery of multiple data pipelines that directly contributed to business intelligence insights that unlocked ~$30 million of annual revenue opportunity for the company• Coached and promoted multiple engineers on the team to senior positions, improving the engineering team\'s technical ability and ability to deliver on more complex and high impact projects for the company

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2016 — 2018

• Swarthmore College

  Bachelor of Science, Engineering

  2010 — 2014

• Swarthmore College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Engineering
• Scipy
• Git
• Html
• R
• Php
• Python
• Numpy
• Tensorflow
• Java
• C
• Programming
• Retail
• Databases
• Microsoft Office
• Customer Service
• C++
• Data Analysis
• Android Development
• Android Sdk
• Angularjs
• Microsoft Word
• Theano
• Keras
• Javascript
• Sql
• Scikit-Learn
• Marketing Strategy
• Social Media Marketing
• Microsoft Excel
• Css