LighthouseGhent, Belgium
Senior Data EngineerJan 2025 – Present
- Set the architecture for our hotel data pipelines, and redesigned data acquisition to comply with GDPR. Wrote the scoping and decision documents, and drove the new data domains through months of organization-level review.
- Rebuilt the pipeline that loads hotel revenue data into the warehouse, modernizing the codebase by moving from pandas and SQLite to DuckDB and BigQuery. Daily cost fell from €350 to €30. The rebuild kept at least two accounts from leaving, together worth $400k in ARR.
- Led the technical integration of an acquired company into our stack, and replatformed its data onto ours. Cut €3,000 a month by retiring its redundant AWS environment and migrating the data ingestion of roughly 15% of all hotels in the world.
- Built the service that orchestrates and monitors our pipelines. End-to-end latency fell by 30% for many properties, and the accompanying metrics are the foundation for our monitoring and actionable alerts.
- Maintained the Terraform repository for our business unit, governing all the GCP projects and underlying infrastructure.
- Interviewed on 29 hiring panels, 8 of which ended in a hire. Mentored teammates through collaborative troubleshooting and knowledge-sharing sessions.