Personal Information
- Name: Alex Abraham
- Date of birth: May 21st, 1994
- Address: 146 McGlynn Place, Cedarhurst, NY 11516
- Phone: (201) 403-7591
- Email: alexgabraham1@gmail.com
Interests
Education
2019 - 2023 (Expected)
Georgia Tech, Online Masters in Computer Science
- Master of Science – Expected 2023
- Major: Computer Science
- Specialization: Computing Systems
2012 - 2016
Yeshiva University, Yeshiva College, New York, NY
- Bachelor of Arts – May 2016
- Major: Computer Science
- Data Structures, Algorithms, Computer Organization and Assembly Language, Web Programming and Development, Cybersecurity, Intro to CS
- Gertrude Nissenbaum Memorial Award for Excellence in Computer Science
Additional Coursework
- Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems – Coursera, Spring 2014
- Web Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL) – Udemy, Spring 2014
- iOS Development (Swift) – Udemy, Fall 2014
- AMT – Intro to Finance
Technical Skills
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Python
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SQL
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Kafka
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Java
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Google Cloud Platform
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Kubernetes
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Apache Airflow
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Javascript
Work Experience
Sr. Data Engineer - DataOps
Vimeo - New York, NY
- Developed an entity-based data modeling framework for product analysis
- Designed entities to improve data governance and discoverability
- Worked with product and analytics teams to ensure entities were comprehensive and well-defined
- Ensured that entity schemas were enforced cross-product
- Updated our underlying infrastructure to support the new framework
- Spearheaded efforts to increase data pipeline monitoring and meet SLAs
Data Engineer II - DataOps
Vimeo - New York, NY
- Worked with product leaders across the company on event pipeline creation
- Used insights from working with product teams to improve our underlying data infrastructure
- Created an API for managing internal data pipeline configurations
- Built ETL pipelines using DBT and Airflow that are easy to maintain and adhere to company standards
Data Engineer - Data Platform
Vimeo - New York, NY
- Developed infrastructure for data ingestion pipelines across all Vimeo product offerings
- Enhanced our in-house Kafka message validation service
- Created a Kafka stream processing framework which included filtering, transforming, and routing messages to multiple destinations
- Designed a web application for users to view and manage data schemas
- Built ETL pipelines for parsing CDN logs
Data Engineer
AllianceBernstein LP - New York, NY
- Lead data engineer working on building out multiple data pipelines for analyzing unstructured data
- Corporate Filings
- Pipeline to retrieve and process corporate filings from SEC Edgar Database
- Used Scrapy (a Python based web scraping framework) to systematically retrieve documents
- Designed and developed process to convert HTML documents to plaintext and extract individual sections
- Earnings Transcripts
- Built web crawler using Selenium to scrape earnings transcripts from the internet on a daily basis
- Developed a web-based dashboard to quickly search through transcripts for specific key words
- Searches for a company across time as well as a list of companies over a specific quarter
- Consumer Reviews for Cell Phones and Cars
- Scraped reviews from various websites
- Designed database schema to integrate reviews from different sources seamlessly
- Built front-end Angular dashboard allowing users to compare reviews across different products and websites
- Contains interactive charts with review statistics
- Short Sellers
- Performed analysis on short-seller investment firms to identify companies which misrepresent portfolio performance
- Built web scrapers to extract data from social media and news outlets
- Created process to identify historical short targets
- Compared list of short targets with short seller claims
- Established team infrastructure in Microsoft Azure for large-scale data analysis
- Created Windows and Linux virtual machines to accommodate different workflows
- Utilized IaaS and self-hosted solutions for SQL and NoSQL databases
- Managed DataBricks cluster-computing environment
Software Developer
AllianceBernstein LP - New York, NY
- Created a new dataset for use in bond analysis
- Built web scraper to retrieve commodities data from the internet
- Integrated web scraping process into the data retrieval pipeline already built by the team
- Enabled models to account for commodities data previously not available
- Created a new dataset for use in bond analysis
- Reduced load time from 8 hours to 30 minutes
- Integrated vendor calculator to analyze Credit Risk Transfers into cluster environment
- Calculator utilized data combined from multiple sources
- Cluster environment allowed for analysis of multiple CRTs simultaneously
- Involved in redesigning process to calculate internal bond rating using data from multiple vendors
- Built pipeline to merge bond rating data using Markit EDM
- Created internal bond rating using a set of business rules designed by the research team
- Created processes to migrate account data across internal systems
- Synchronized internal account database with software to invest in derivatives
- Replaced manual account verification process and improved efficiency of business operations
Software Developer and IT Technician (Part-Time)
NutriLab LLC - Hackensack, NJ
- Developed an algorithm that interprets questionnaire responses to assess nutrient deficiencies and generate a nutritional supplement recommendation; algorithm dramatically increased the productivity of the nutrition staff
- Managed equipment provided by the company for employees, performed routine checks, researched and suggested new equipment to purchase
- Provided technical support to employees who need help with using company equipment such as computers, printers, network storage, and cell phones
Software Development Intern
Hungry Inc. - Brooklyn, NY
- Tasked with developing three products used to aid development and experiment with new technologies for start-up focused on website and mobile application development
- Developed Scaffold, a web platform which builds a quick rudimentary API designed to speed up front-end development
- Scaffold back-end uses Laravel and front-end uses AngularJS
- User can specify request headers, response headers, endpoints, and sample data
- Generates active sample API link which returns JSON data that front-end developers can use for testing
- Developed applications for Mac and Android using the openFrameworks SDK
- HungryCircles – Grabs pixel color from camera and draws circles with random radii and z index
- AirDraw – User selects a unique color from the camera and AirDraw tracks the color on the screen
Tech Support (End User Support)
IDT Corporation - Newark, NJ
- Provided tier one support
- Answered phone calls
- Helped IDT employees with any issues related to technology given to them by the company
- Repaired corporate blackberries and computers
- Reimaged computers using Altiris
- Unlocked domain accounts (Windows)