Nathaniel Young

Experience

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  The King's Academy, Sunnyvale, CA

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Information Technology Intern

  I worked with a team of people to maintain and improve networking at the school by running new Cat5e lines and patch cables and adding new RJ45 jacks.Setup new laptops and connected them to the networking infrastructure.Troubleshooted and repaired malfunctioning hardware and formatted drives from old computers.

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  Adobe

  Mar 2018 - May 2020

  Adobe Creative Cloud Ambassador

  - Hosted numerous workshop tutorials to teach and inspire students at Purdue by showing them how to use the Adobe Creative Cloud programs including Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.- Raised student awareness through social media, flyers, giveaways, blog posts, and email marketing.- Designed vector graphics for print and edited numerous of my photos for social media/web use.- Invited to attend the Adobe Young Creator summit at Adobe’s San Francisco office. Participated in tours, Q&A, demos, feedback, and presentation sessions with the Adobe education team. Show less

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  FireEye, Inc.

  Jun 2018 - Jun 2020

  Marketing Operations Intern

  - Worked as a full stack developer in the marketing operations department to help enrich and process hundreds of thousands of records.- Created the backend server using Python Flask with numerous custom API endpoints to integrate seamlessly with Marketo (our internal marketing automation system) and many background processes for long running bulk operations. Set up a scheduler to automatically run our daily background processes.- Used Firebase for authentication, database, and storage. Used Redis for the job queue and cache. Used stemming, spelling errors, tokenization, and other text processing techniques to clean records and then enrich the records based on numerous keywords.- Created a natural language model based on logistic probability and used various other text frequencies and syntax to identify garbage text within our database.- Leveraged many other external services including SendGrid, Google Translate, and EverString.- Created a web application using Javascript, CSS, HTML, and Bootstrap for the users to login, adjust the settings, and interact with the system. Show less

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  Apple

  Sept 2020 - Oct 2021

  Python Developer

  - Worked as a software engineer/data engineer on the system intelligence and machine learning data team to scale and automate our data collection processes that process many terabytes of images, videos, and annotation metadata.- Built many Airflow dags to automate our pipelines and created many tools to validate (schema, exif, semantics, duplication, and distributions) and ingest the data along with many other ETL processes. - Made our pipelines perform faster and efficiently with multithreading and streaming.- Also worked extensively with json schemas, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS S3, Box API, FFmpeg (GPU accelerated), internal infrastructure (and distributed computing), and internal CI/CD. Show less

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  Sayari

  Dec 2021 - now

  Data Engineer