Daniel Broun

Software Engineer focused on data and giving customers what they actually need

Brooklyn, NY

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About

I’m an accomplished programmer with an intuitive sense of the big picture and an eye for the details. I love breaking problems down into bite-sized pieces and working with smart people.

Work Experience

State Farm
Remote

2022 - Present

Software Engineer, Data

Designed and built React dashboard to monitor live load status of claims redshift data warehouse in test and prod environments. Improved data modeling and table building processes using Python and command line tools.

Cogito
Remote
Co-op

January - August 2021

Data Engineering Co-op

Designed, built, tested. & deployed 500+ events/hour scalable event ETLs. Proposed solutions, designed, & began development on client-facing API wrapper around central data warehouse using Flask & SQLAlchemy to standardize data access for internal & external stakeholders.

Software Engineer → Team Lead

Lead web development team overhaul of IDEA website in 2021/22. Took over ownership of portfolio project as lead/project manager August 2020. Managed a team of 4 and built React based portfolio of IDEA ventures final product delivered in December 2020, allowing external access to Salesforce data for the first time.

Fellow → Co-President

Attended summer-long joint fellowship program between Yale, McGill, Northeastern and Northwestern Universities to apply rationality & strategy to questions regarding morality & altruism. Received $5000 honors grant from Northeastern to start our own fellowship to teach Northeastern students about effective giving and EA resources.

Mavrck
Co-op

January - December 2019

Full-stack Software Engineering Co-op

Reengineered key-metric impressions module to give real time estimates for thousands of posts per week to improve data reliability & organization increasing company efficiency saving ~10 hours of work per week for engineers and marketers. Redesigned customer-facing GDPR page with personalized URLs accessible through email to increase external data transparency.

Education

Northeastern University

2017 - 2022

Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science and Philosophy

Honors Grant, Research Assistant, AI & Data Ethics Research Group. Research Assistant, Rossetti Research Group

Skills

Python
JavaScript
React/Angular/Flask
Python
SQL/PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
Docker
Java
Apache Spark/Pulsar
AWS
Azure
Terraform
CI/CD