Lyle Poisson

Lead Data Engineer at DataPraxis

• Developed a scalable, stable, and automated solution to a pre-existing manual process for a nascent, ad hoc survey data analytics service, saving over 6 hours per survey ingestion.
• Built a self-hosted container-based ingestion and analytics platform from scratch, using Google Compute Engine, BigQuery, dbt, Docker/Kubernetes, and Windmill workflow engine, reducing ingest time from 45 to 3 minutes.
• Developed and enforced team-wide engineering best practices and developed automated tests and toolsets to allow the entire Analytics team to write consistent, bug-free code.

Data Engineer at the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) from 2022 to 2024.

• Oversaw data engineering for an organization with an operating budget of over $47MM annually, creating 30 pipelines to improve transparency in the $4 trillion municipal bonds market.
• Spearheaded a $50K pipeline upgrade project as the sole engineer, increasing pricing yield curve data availability on 2.7MM securities by 800%.
• Served as lead subject matter expert in pricing and securities data on a team of 15, driving a 70% improvement in team performance.
• Reduced full data load time from 3 weeks to 6 hours, cutting operating expenses by 95%.
• Automated table DDL comparison, reducing operating time significantly while mentoring 3 data analysts in optimizing SQL queries, improving runtime by 500%.

Data Engineer II (Contractor) at BlueLabs Analytics in 2022.

• Managed data engineering for a company with >$15MM in annual revenue, directing a major version upgrade of data workflow architecture.
• Overhauled architecture for >1 TB in cloud file storage, reducing costs significantly.
• Redesigned a large government agency's HR platform by migrating to a SaaS solution, decreasing onboarding and offboarding costs.