About

Ruan Pearce-Authers is a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer with over 13 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at Lockwood Publishing Ltd, where he manages a cross-discipline data team responsible for developing and maintaining the company's cloud-based data platform. Ruan's primary responsibilities include engineering new features and in-house services for the platform, overseeing platform operations across development, staging, and production environments, and creating production-ready implementations of machine learning models based on R&D performed by data scientists. He is also responsible for managing the ongoing evolution of the company's data warehouse and schemas as new product features and analytics requirements are introduced. Ruan is an expert in data engineering, ML, AWS, software engineering, data warehouse, CI/CD, testing, data scientist, ETL, web, infra, integration, and senior software engineering. He has previously worked at Deep Silver Dambuster Studios as a Senior Online Services Engineer, where he was responsible for architecting, deploying, and maintaining the scalable online services and APIs for collection, processing, and storage of telemetry data. He also liaised with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to establish core metrics and KPIs for projects across all lifecycle stages and developed and assisted in the integration of cross-platform client SDKs. Ruan's day-to-day responsibilities at Lockwood Publishing Ltd include line management for the data team, setting objectives for career growth, monthly catchups, and performance reviews. He also oversees compliance for relevant data protection regulations, such as GDPR, and evangelizes the benefits of a data-driven company culture. Ruan is highly skilled in managing services that are sufficiently performant to reliably handle traffic for a game with over 1 million daily active users while controlling infrastructure spend. He is also responsible for liaising between feature teams and stakeholders to ensure that all aspects of the product are correctly instrumented for analytics and recruiting for data science and engineering roles. Overall, Ruan Pearce-Authers is an experienced Lead Data Engineer with a wealth of knowledge in data engineering, ML, AWS, software engineering, data warehouse, CI/CD, testing, data scientist, ETL, web, infra, integration, and senior software engineering. He is a valuable asset to any team and is highly skilled in managing complex data projects.