Chad Horne

Experienced data engineer with expertise in enterprise data warehousing and cloud data systems

Work Experience

Senior Data Engineer – Henderson Engineers

Feb. 2024 – Present

  • Built and maintained the Data Vault architecture for an enterprise data warehouse and data lake, providing access to historical data for data science and analytics initiatives.

Senior Data Engineer – Wavicle Data Solutions

May 2022 – Feb. 2024

  • Designed and implemented data pipelines in Azure Data Factory and Databricks to load data from REST APIs into an enterprise data lake, resulting in streamlined access to customer data for advanced analytics.
  • Drove the development of CI/CD pipelines for data platform projects, enabling infrastructure-as-code with automated testing and deployment for Databricks and Azure resources.
  • Conducted architecture assessments for clients, including optimization strategies, improvement recommendations, and potential timelines for implementation.
  • Met with current and prospective clients to define business requirements, compare data platform architectures, and develop strategic roadmaps for cloud solution development.

Data Engineer – Watco Companies

Feb. 2020 – May 2022

  • Spearheaded the design and implementation of an enterprise data lake architecture with Databricks, resulting in improved data availability and reduced time to insights for the data analytics team.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for Databricks and Azure Data Factory jobs, enabling automated triggers for testing and deployment of data pipelines.
  • Developed ETL processes to load JSON data from REST APIs into data marts (star schema models), providing access to data without affecting performance on operational systems.

Business Intelligence Developer – Cerner

Sep. 2018 – Feb. 2020

  • Overhauled existing machine learning model after organizational restructuring, enabling predictive analytics on software development costs and capitalization by department.
  • Developed and deployed a web-based data report catalog, in collaboration with other developers, using JavaScript (React) and Python, offering instant access to more than 600 analytics reports.
  • Refactored complex SQL stored procedures using Python, improving query performance by more than 50%.

AHEC Program Dev. and Data Manager – A. T. Still University

Oct. 2015 – Sep. 2018

  • Managed all data reporting, analytics, and ETL processes for the Area Health Education Centers program in Missouri.
  • Created comprehensive data reports for federal grant applications which resulted in approximately $5 million in federal funding from 2017 to 2022.
  • Chaired the Missouri AHEC Data Committee, focused on streamlining data collection and reporting processes across all Missouri AHEC locations.

Education

Truman State University

  • BS, Computer Science – May, 2015
  • BA, French Language and Literature – May 2012

Certifications and Skills

Certifications:

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate
  • Certified Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner
  • Academy Accreditation - Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals
  • Astronomer Certification for Apache Airflow Fundamentals

Skills: Python, SQL, R, Azure, Databricks, Spark, dbt, Docker, Airflow, Dagster, ARM/BICEP, Linux, Git, SSIS, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Dimensional Modeling, Data Vault Modeling, Machine Learning, CI/CD, Agile Development