Art Perkitny

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Senior Data Engineer

Phone: (216) 905 0065 | Email: Artperkitny@gmail.com | Current Location

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Skills

Python | Pandas | NumPy | Scikit | SymPy | SQL | PostgreSQL | PostGIS | MongoDB | Data Pipelines | Data Cleaning | REST APIs | Linux Terminal | Data Mining | Matplotlib | Seaborn | JavaScript | D3 | Leaflet.js | Git | Web Scraping | AWS | S3 | RDS | Lambda | EC2 | OepnCV | Django | Flask | GIS | GeoPandas | Excel | Google Sheets | Tensorflow | Stochastic Algorithms | QuickBooks API

Experience


Independent Data Engineering Contractor


  • Data Collection/Scraping and Data Cleaning
  • ETL Pipeline Engineering
  • Database Design and Maintenance
  • Software Automation and General Scripting
  • Data Visualization
  • Predictive Algorithm and Model Design (ML/AI)
  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
  • Cloud Architecture Design and Implementation
  • REST API Development and Deployment
  • DevOps

  • Noteworthy Client Projects

  • Mapbox Tileset from TIF Using Tippecanoe
  • Dynamic Video Sales Letter API Using FFMPEG and OpenCV
  • Selenium Powered Web Automation Bot for Filling Government Forms
  • Tesseract OCR Bank Statement Data Extractor
  • Numerous EDAs Used to write Data-Driven Articles for BiggerPockets Magazine

  • More Info on These Projects Here
July 2019 - Present
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Case Western Reserve University

Data Science Co-Instructor

  • Taught a broad spectrum of data science concepts to a class of 25 students including technologies such as Pandas, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Flask.
  • Helped refactor the curriculum by offering my personal advice on how to improve the learning experience for students
April 2020 - October 2020
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QuantMaps.com (Exited)

Co-Creator & Lead Data Scientist

  • Sold Company in January 2021
  • Developed a scoring algorithm to rank locations for real estate investment risk, which has helped protect investor’s wealth and maximize returns on investments.
  • Engineered a system to collect, transform, and store millions of data points from government data sets including the American Community Survey, Current Employment Survey, and Consumer Price Index.
January 2019 - January 2021
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Onsite Construction Services, Inc.

Business Analyst & Co-Founder

  • Co-Founded Onsite Construction Services, Inc. - A Construction Subcontracting Firm specializing in concrete and selective demolition.
  • Built software using Python, SQL, AWS, and Google Sheets to run job costing analysis to track each jobs performance
  • Tracked company finances in quickbooks and prepared and filed quarterly and annual corporate taxes (forms 1120s, 941, and 940)
February 2017 - January 2019
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HackShack

Founder

  • Founded HackShack - a hostel for engineering and entrepreneurial networking and collaboration that generated 120k in total revenues with a 20k/month run-rate at its peak
  • Developed code to automate accounting and the management of Airbnb listings
  • Managed small team of property managers and part-time contractors
July 2015 - February 2017
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Rentlytics, Inc.

Software Engineer

  • Wrote Provisioner for Vagrant VM using Chef and Puppet.
  • Developed custom django migrations to transform database schema.
  • Participated in sprint planning sessions and operated using the agile development methodology
June 2015 - October 2015

Freelance PHP Software Developer


  • Created an inventory system for bars using LAMP stack that allowed for highly accurate tracking of theft and spillage
  • Engineered web-crawler to fetch business data from the secretary of state website for a number of states
April 2013 - June 2015

References

David Zajac - Client - Strokemaster tennis group, LLC - 440-204-9986

Rocco Sorma - Lead Data Science Instructor - Case Western Reserve University - 440-253-8184 | 440-623-6160

Varun Kumar - Software Engineer - IBM - 716-474-4839

Publications

Notable Personal Projects

Quickbooks Personal Finance: Collected, Extracted, and Loaded all my personal finance data since 2013 into quickbooks using a combination of technologies including Python, OpenCV, Pandas, SQL, AWS EC2, RDS, and S3. Wrote Djagno app to display data on dashboard and pull info from Quickbooks API. Also developed script to automate the accounting of investments within various brokerage accounts.

UHF RFID Item Scanner: Built program to interface with ultra high frequency RFID scanner. The goal was to be able to scan CPGs and groceries all in one go to reduce time spent waiting in line.

Pneumatic Sliding Door Engineered system for an automatic sliding door using pneumatic technology. Used a double-acting pneumatic piston along with an Arduino to control the opening and closing of the door when a button was pressed.

Languages

English (Native)

Polish (Native)

Hobbies and Interests

Mountaineering & Backpacking

Weightlifting

Road Tripping & Overlanding

Quantified Self

Personal Finance