About

April Rabkin is a journalist turned data engineer with over 6 years of relevant experience across the tech stack from web applications to information security. She is currently working as a Data Engineer at Veraset where she is responsible for crafting code that helps others ask and answer questions and make sense of data by the terabyte. Before joining Veraset, April worked as a Data Engineer at Capital One where she supported risk management of interest rate swaps and other derivatives. She was also responsible for migrating data pipelines to the cloud and working daily with EMR, Lambda, SNS, S3, IAM and more AWS services. She wrote Spark Scala, Python, and of course shell scripts, onboarded applications to CICD pipelines, and developed healthy ping pong rivalries. April has also worked as a Data Scientist at Thinx where she crunched data from multiple sources as the sole developer on their Looker platform, ETLs, and Redshift clusters. She shared her findings with executives and department heads through data visualizations and presentations and conducted SQL cohort analysis to gain new insights into customer interests and retention. April holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is currently pursuing her degree. She also holds a NYC Web Development Fellow in Ruby on Rails from the Flatiron School, a Machine Learning certification from Metis, and a Certificate in Chinese Language from the Inter-University Program. April's tech stack includes Data Engineering, AWS, Web, Spark, Python, Scala, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, SQL, and ETL. She is passionate about crafting code that helps others make sense of data and is always looking for new challenges to tackle.