Michael Namie — Data Engineer

Michael Namie

Role: Data Engineer

Data engineer with 10+ years in the financial industry and 8+ years building large-scale data platforms. Currently at Adyen, designing and operating pipelines that power payments analytics at global scale. Passionate about reliable, high-throughput systems and turning raw data into clear, actionable insight.

Technologies
Work Experience
Projects

Python
Big Data Stack
SQL
Relational Databases
Linux
JavaScript
Other Programming Languages

Adyen NV (2023-Present) Data Engineer
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (2021-2023) Data Engineer & Product Owner
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (2018-2021) Data Engineer
The Opportunity Exchange (2018-2019) Freelance Full Stack Developer
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (2016-2018) Equity Analyst
Federated Investors (May 2015-Aug 2015) Intern
ANSYS, Inc. (Jun 2014-Aug. 2014) Intern

RustyChip — A CHIP-8 emulator written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly and playable in the browser.
PathHunter — A Rust CLI tool that audits Windows PATH variables, removing non-existent and duplicate entries.

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Over a decade of experience building data pipelines, APIs, and web applications in Python. Day-to-day tools include PySpark, Pandas, FastAPI, and Flask, among others.

Building and operating large-scale data platforms end-to-end: Airflow for orchestration, PySpark for ETL, HDFS & Delta Lake for storage, Kafka for streaming, and Druid for analytics.

Over a decade of writing and optimizing SQL across diverse query engines including Spark SQL, Trino, and Druid.

Production experience designing schemas, writing migrations, and tuning queries in PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and SQLite.

Daily driver for development and production infrastructure. This site runs on a self-managed Debian VPS with nginx.

Built this site with Lume and Deno, and used JavaScript extensively for freelance full-stack projects with Node.

Exploring systems programming through hobby projects in Rust, C, C++, and Go.