I'm a Data Engineer transitioning from a 10+ year career in manufacturing. I recently completed a Data Engineering bootcamp, and now I'm building scalable, cloud-native data systems.

Languages: Python, JavaScript (basic), Shell scripting
Cloud: AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, Athena, Glue, Step Functions, SDK/CLI, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, Kinesis)
Data Engineering: SQL (Intermediate/Advanced), MongoDB, ETL Pipelines, Postgres, OLTP/OLAP modeling, database normalization
DevOps & Infrastructure: Terraform (HCL), GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Makefiles, Docker
Data Architecture: Star/Snowflake Schema, Data Warehouse, Lakes & Lakehouse Testing: TDD, Pytest, Mocking & Patching
Methodology: Agile/Scrum, Trello management & Orchestration

• 📊 Northcoders DE Project – Terrific Totes
  A 3-week team project remodeling a transactional database into an analytical format using an ETL pipeline on AWS (Lambda, S3), deployed via GitHub Actions and Terraform. Used Agile methodology and Kanban for team coordination.
• 🔐 Password Manager
  A simple password manager that utilises AWS Secrets to store username and passwords securely. Pair programming project.
• ⚡ Pokemon Battle Game
  A terminal based Pokemon battler using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.

• ✈️ ClearFlight API
  An API which provides real-time and historical traffic & weather information for airports, routings and flight numbers.
• 📷 ANPR System
  An Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system built using Python and various libraries for Image Processing and Machine Learning.
• 📈 FinanceStream360
  An AWS-based real-time financial data pipeline providing live visual insights from streamed Finnhub data.

Outside of tech, I’m a lifelong aviation enthusiast. ✈️ I love to travel, Japan is my favorite destination! In my free time, I enjoy reading, cycling, gaming (built my own PC), paddleboarding, and recently took up running with a goal of reaching 10km! 🏃‍♂️🎯

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