About

Amy Thomas is a Senior Engineer at Target, where she leads the Data Engineering team to support the Digital Marketing team. With over 11 years of IT experience, including six years in Big Data and Hadoop Development, Amy has built scalable systems using Big Data technologies like Spark, Hive, Kafka, and Druid for digital marketing analytics. Amy has a good understanding of Hadoop architecture and the underlying framework, including storage management. She has worked in different stages of Data Analytics solutions, from data collection and storage to transformation and analysis, with a focus on Data Engineering. Amy proactively looks for improvements and optimizations in existing and new solutions to enhance data ingestion and improve reporting capabilities. Amy has worked on large datasets like clickstream and DFP logs to derive meaningful insights and measure the performance of digital marketing campaigns in Retail. With five years of experience in Digital Marketing, Amy has good exposure to team practices like Agile methodology and SCRUM, and she has a good understanding and domain knowledge of the Retail space. Amy's education includes a Master of Computer Applications from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. Her technical skills include Senior Software Engineering, Spark, Hadoop, Data Engineering, Scala, Kafka, Big Data, Apache Hive, HDFS, MongoDB, NoSQL, Java, MapReduce, test, Frontend, Software Engineering, UI, and Backend. With 13.95 years of relevant experience, Amy is a seasoned professional with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Data Engineering and Digital Marketing.