Joseph S. Gutstadt

Software Engineering Expertise: Over 3 years of experience crafting scalable data solutions using Python, SQL, AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Dagster, with strong expertise in data structures and algorithms.

Collaborative Leadership: Bridged product and technical teams, mentored junior engineers, led code reviews, and communication of cross-functional groups—including C-suite executives—to resolve blockers and drive team success.

Academic & Certification Excellence: Pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech and holding AWS and SnowPro certifications.

• Collaborated with the Product team to guide implementation for DEV and QA teams, reducing deployment delays by 20% through streamlined workflows and accelerating new feature delivery.
• Enhanced sprint velocity by 25% by ensuring code quality, reducing review turnaround times, and proactively resolving blockers for the entire team.
• Initiated and led a project to standardize robust unit tests and data orchestration as part of our CI/CD workflow, resulting in 50+ bugs found over the quarter.
• Mentored 4 junior engineers in data engineering best practices and Snowflake optimization.
• Effectively communicated and clarified complex technical medical healthcare language and business logic, translating requirements into precise SQL implementations.

• Resolved 100+ critical patient safety issues in a large legacy codebase (C#, JavaScript).
• Primary Patient Experience liaison for 30 healthcare analysts across many organizations.
• Developed internal tool improvements (SQL) for a 150 user base, saving 30+ hours/month in manual workflows.

• Created job listing dataset that was used by 100k people, then wrote a report on data career skills.

• Developed a cloud-hosted resume including dynamic PDF generation and visitor tracking.

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, C++, C, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, RedShift, API Gateway, DynamoDB), Snowflake, Azure, GCP
• Data Engineering: Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, ETL/ELT, Data Orchestration (Dagster, Airflow)
• DevOps & Tools: Git, GitHub Actions, Bash, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, DBT, Django, Pandas
• Additional Skills: Agile, Scrum, CI/CD, Testing (Unit, Integration), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Confluence, Jira
• Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, SnowPro Core Certification