About

Balious Pruitt is an experienced Sr. Data Warehouse Engineer with a strong background in database and ETL. He is proficient in designing, coding, and implementing scalable complex pipelines of structured and unstructured data. Balious has 19.29 years of relevant experience in the field of Data Engineering. Balious is a highly skilled professional with expertise in programming languages such as T-SQL, SQL, Python, C#, PIG, PowerShell, and JAVA. He is well-versed in ETL and Analytic Tools such as SSIS, SSRS, Tableau, Stream Sets Data Collector, Airflow, and Logstash. Balious is also proficient in RDMS Platforms such as SQL Server and MySQL, and has experience working with servers like Window 2008/2012/2016 and Linux CentOS. He has worked with NoSQL Platforms like HBase and Elasticsearch, and has experience working with Big Data Systems such as Hadoop, Flume, MapReduce, Solr, Spark, PIG, Apache Drill, and RabbitMQ. Balious is also familiar with REST API’s and Cloud Technologies like GCP and AWS. Currently, Balious is working as a Sr. Data Warehouse Engineer at Hard Rock Digital. In his previous role at Gamigo US Inc., he migrated on-premise SQL Server Datawarehouse to Google Cloud’s Big Query. He built data pipelines and workflows using Apache Airflow, Python, Stream Sets, and other technologies to support various business initiatives. Balious also migrated on-premise data lake to GCP and maintained legacy star schema data warehouse and on-premise Hadoop Cluster. He designed and built report automation and performed ad-hoc data requests. Prior to his current role, Balious worked as an ETL Engineer at Trion Worlds, Inc. where he was responsible for continuous development of the corporate data warehouse commensurate with new and current business processes in support of the company’s online gaming business. He built data marts that supported various business and game processes and used C#, Python, PIG, Java, Sqoop, and SQL for ETL development of pipelines from various data sources. Balious was a key contributor in building the big data pipeline from the ground up and developed and maintained ETL processes that supported the Tableau reporting layer. He designed and built various data systems that improved game operations and customer service support. Balious holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems and Criminal Justice from Old Dominion University. He is skilled in