Senior Data Engineer @ New Orleans Pelicans
2025 — 2026- Built Airflow DAGs for live game data ingestion that compute per-quarter and full-game metrics consumed by the Analytics Team.
- Designed and shipped an extensible ingestion service that unifies player, league, and team data from disparate sources, abstracting away both source type (CSV, API, etc.) and entity type so new providers can be onboarded with minimal code.
- Implemented duplicate-detection auditing across overlapping data sources — including profile-image matching for hard-to-resolve player records and cosine-similarity techniques inspired by published player-ID matching research (e.g., American Soccer Analysis Glass Onion, Unravel Sports).
- Continuously refined ingestion quality, observability, and operational processes for the data platform.