Tiémé Togola

• TypeScript
• Python
• Scala
• SQL
• Java
• Terraform

• GCP
• Kafka
• Airflow
• Node.js / Deno
• Spark
• GraphQL

Fey September 2021 — April 2023

• Fully designed and implemented the backend for the Research part of the app, which involved both streaming and batch data
• Reverse-engineered the Robinhood API to integrate trading and real-time syncing. This unlocked a huge pool of customers
• Enabled revenue by building user account subscriptions with the Stripe API
• Owned large parts of the app as part of a small remote startup, where shipping fast and being able to pivot is important

Hopper November 2020 — August 2021

• Led the GCP migration of high-traffic big data distributed systems, such as price forecasting and user tracking, with zero production downtime
• Slashed payment processing costs by up to 10% via smarter payment routing strategies

Hopper August 2018 — November 2020

• Democratized ETL across engineering and data science through reusable and performant data processing jobs (Spark, Bigtable, BigQuery)
• Drastically grew data-driven decision making by integrating realtime user events into Amplitude for self-serve analytics
• Improved data reliability by co-developing a type-safe, idempotent, and scalable tracking events system. Presented demos, documentation, and gathered feedback to increase adoption

NerdWallet May 2017 — December 2017

Symantec September 2016 — December 2016

Public Safety Canada January 2016 — April 2016

Evertz Microsystems May 2015 — August 2015

University of Waterloo September 2014 — June 2018