Director, Software Engineering at GoodRx | Adjunct Professor Data Science at USD | Mentor at Plato
Hello, I’m Sean Coyne. An experienced engineering director with a demonstrated history of reducing costs and improving implementation speed.
Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Certified ScrumMaster
AWS Certified Developer
AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty
Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 3.0
Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
Managed full stack engineers across three teams in order to support marketing operations, personalization and identity resolution.
As a manager of data engineering, managed a team of 6 data engineers to build batch and near real time data processing pipelines delivering $1M+ in value quarter over quarter. Led team to build identity resolution, audience selection and attribution data products and services.
ETL using Spark on EMR and SQL on Redshift
REST APIs using Lambda and ApiGateway
Data Discovery using Amundsen
Data Quality using Great Expectations
Data Monitoring with DataDog and PagerDuty
Data Ingestion with Fivetran and AWS Glue
Data Coordination with Airflow
Data Integrations with Salesforce, Liveramp, Segment, Facebook And Google Ads APIs
Implemented and documented robust on-call process, including creation of a DataEngineering run-book, implementation of Pager Duty and on-call expectations for team.
Expedited process to move Data Science to Astronomer, and productionalized their first model while putting into place code review, linting, testing and deployment processes so that Data Science can self-service launch models into production.
Held monthly team socials to build team cohesion and increase trust and morale.
Led, delegated and managed work for discovery data team, successfully completing all of the below projects, supporting millions of dollars in marketing spend.
Spearheaded the ideation and creation of the first customer data warehouse enabling a 200% increase in email engagement using Spark, Scala and Airflow. Designed and built data models for optimal extraction, transformation, and consumption of camera, app, email and marketing data using SQL, Python and Scala which is currently used by six+ teams and 75% of the product and marketing org for their business reporting. Devised multiple data models tables to solve business problems resulting in a 30% reduction in processing time and a 2x improvement in team efficiency. Designed and implemented company wide data quality and data cataloging tooling and processes leading to hundreds of hours saved company wide.
Built new AWS hosted data pipeline using Scala, Python reducing processing time by 20%.
Reduced ongoing data load effort by 60% with the creation of documentation and SOPs.
Mentored, coached, and trained a team of six in SQL, Python, Scala, Git as well as Scrum and SDLC best practices. Built and launched a custom 120 day Scala training program.
Identified and tested the opportunity to improve code flexibility via Spark tuning and Scala conversion. Achieving a 45% increase in data pipeline speed led to Scala being adopted.
Implemented multi-sprint management process to aide in planning and prioritizing workload across five workstreams, resulting in a 16% sprint velocity improvement.
Leveraged AWS, Hadoop, Jenkins and Airflow to improve the ETL pipeline.
Managed four FTEs, supervised entire product portfolio including new product development across two brands in addition to scaling of 32 existing products globally. Grew sales volume by 25% by creating and implementing SOPs for new product development, hiring, onboarding, marketing, project and inventory management.
Managed one FTE, coached and trained team of 30 on SQL, SVN and best practices. Managed cross functional implementation project resource allocation, roadmap, and escalations Managed E2E onboarding process for 30 clients, generating $9MM in contract revenue. Formulated and executed a standardized implementation process resulting in a 40% reduction in time-to-production, which was adopted across two different teams. Recognized as top contributor to KPIs in Q1 2015 due to launch of streamlined CRM process for flagship clients leading to a 90% reduction in effort.
Built and launched data ingestion pipeline and web application using C#, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript and SQL, resulting in a substantial effort reduction and improved accuracy for clinical data management team. As a full stack developer, utilized test driven development on a federally regulated web application. Provided timely technical support and problem resolution for all applications.
Presented recommendations to senior management with regards to airport compliance, airfield safety, runway friction measurements and airfield security. Effectively communicated critical information with air traffic control
Ensure students receive the individual support they need to succeed. Help students with their class work, participate in themed-lessons and academic enrichment activities and support Classroom Coordinators with daily lesson plans.
Ensure students receive the individual support they need to succeed. Help students with their class work, participate in themed-lessons and academic enrichment activities and support Classroom Coordinators with daily lesson plans.
Changing Expectations is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization committed to providing K-12 and higher education STEM learning opportunities to alleviate diverse talent shortages and advance the future STEM and computing workforce by inspiring and preparing K-12 and college students. We particularly focus on preparing and supporting those who are underrepresented in STEM fields: female, low income, and students of color–to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math related fields. Changing Expectations mission is to provide the highest impact STEM and computer coding programs to inspire young people from diverse backgrounds and prepare them to pursue STEM careers. We focus our work on reaching out to students who might otherwise not have access to quality STEM education programs.