Lucas Coffey

Cloud Native Data Engineer supporting Machine Learning applications with a strong background in AWS, Azure, Python, SQL, PySpark, Data Science, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, MLOps, ML Workloads on Cloud Native infrastructure.

Experience as a Data Engineer on large government projects implementing AWS S3, AWS Data Lakes, Redshift Data Warehouse, ETL pipelines, PySpark, AWS EMR, AWS Glue transformation jobs and Jupyter Notebooks.

Experience with agile and scrum work environments. Experience committing code to Git source control systems and tracking tickets via JIRA. Experience with PyCharm, VS Code, Tableau, Excel and Microsoft Office.

Veteran of the Kentucky Air National Guard, served as a Crew Chief on C-130’s. Combat tested leaderships skills.

Graduate of Southern New Hampshire University’s Information Technology - Web Development program (B.S.) and Southern New Hampshire University’s - Business program (A.S.).

I enjoy solving real world problems with technology.

Education

2022-Present
University of Southern New Hampshire University

Masters in Data Analytics - Information Technology

Masters Degree in Information Technology with a concentration in Data and Analytics.

2016-2019
University of Southern New Hampshire University

Bachelors in Information Technology - Web Development

Bachelors degree in Information Technology with a concentration in Web Development.

2015-2017
University of Southern New Hampshire University

Associates in Business Administration

Associates degree in Business Administration and Finance.

2002-2002
Community College of the Air Force

Aerospace Maintenance Apprenticeship - C-130 Specialty

Air Force Air Force Aerospace Maintenance Apprenticeship program for C-130H aircraft at Little Rock, AFB, Arkansas

2002-2002
Community College of the Air Force

Aerospace Maintenance Apprenticeship - Cargo Aircraft

Air Force Aerospace Maintenance Apprenticeship program for cargo aircraft and bombers at Wichita Falls, AFB, Texas.

2001 - 2002
Community College of the Air Force

Basic Military Training

Basic Military Training with the U.S. Air Force at Lackland, AFB, Texas

Experience

2022 - Present
Accenture Federal Services

Data Engineer

Hybrid Data Engineer / ML Engineer on large government healthcare project implementing and maintaining machine learning models such as:

Managing Spark clusters for ETL and implementation of Spark ML Machine Learning models on AWS EMR to detect insurance fraud via anomaly detection.

Build Tensorflow time series forecast models to predict the behavior future system traffic to understand when to increase and decrease backend resources to support peaks in traffic.

Experience with agile and scrum work environments. Experience tracking tickets via JIRA. Experience with Spark, Spark ML, AWS EMR, SQL, Python, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Athena, AWS Glue, Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas, Tensorflow, Keras, VS Code, AWS QuickSight, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office.

2021 - 2022
Accenture Federal Services

Data Engineer

Worked as a Data Engineer on large government project implementing an S3 Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lambda based ETL pipeline and AWS Glue transformation jobs.

Experience with agile and scrum work environments. Experience tracking tickets via JIRA. Experience with SQL, Python, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Athena, AWS Glue, VS Code, Tableau, Excel and Microsoft Office.

2001 - 2006
Kentucky Air National Guard

Crew Chief - C-130H

Job consisted of Maintain aircraft, support equipment (SE), and forms and records. Perform production supervisor, flight chief, expediter, crew chief, support, aero repair, and maintenance functions.

Advise on problems maintaining, servicing, and inspecting aircraft and aerospace SE. Use technical data to diagnose and solve maintenance problems on aircraft systems. Interpret and advise on maintenance procedures and policies to repair aircraft and SE.

Supervise and assist in launching and recovering aircraft. Review maintenance data collection summaries to determine trends and production effectiveness. Perform crash recovery duties.

Used data-driven decision making to perform staff and supervisory management functions.

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