Résumé for Michael Wayne Arnold
Technical Projects 🖥 GitHub Profile 🤓 Tech Writings Contact Information 📧 michael@rnold.info 🐘 @marmanold@micro.blog Education Master of Divinity (M.Div.) Vanderbilt University (May 2019) Concentration: Chaplaincy Bachelor of Science in Business Administration The University of Alabama (December 2006) Majors: Management Information Systems & German Minor: Computer Science Experience (Software Development) Director, Engineering, XOi Technologies, Nashville, TN, USA July 2021 - Present Led a data engineering team in modeling data from the source application into a Postgres database to support analytics, BI, and data science Built microservices in Python 3 using the Serverless framework deployed to AWS Lambda to ingest data from a source application using AWS DynamoDB via DynamoDB Stream and from 3rd parties via API integrations Tuned the database to support a BI workload and monitor for continuous performance improvements using pgMustard and pgAnalyze Led data modelling and ETL pipeline architecture Led the migration of Postgres, AWS DynamoDB, and other diverse data sources to a Snowflake data warehouse to support analytics, BI, and data science workflows Designed an event-driven data ingestion pipeline that processed thousands of transactions per minute and scales to meet demand Worked closely with the business to build product roadmaps Managed multiple project roadmaps cutting across several teams; reporting on status, monitoring progress, removing roadblocks, and ensuring quality releases tied to business deadlines Senior Data Engineer, AVP, Citizens Bank, Franklin, TN, USA November 2018 - June 2021 Read more...
All-hands Belief
How many of y’all have sat through an all-hands meeting? Having spent the greater part of a decade in the Nashville corporate scene, I’ve been in my fair share. For an hour (or more if you’re particularly unlucky) a stream of people come across the stage (or these days your screen) to, nominally, share with you “exciting” news and to “inform” you about all the “good” things on the horizon. But, we all know the reality. Read more...
