A bit more.

I call myself a software designer because I think it's the more honest name for what I actually do. Most of the typing happens through a model now — what I bring is the part that's still hard: judgment about what to build, how the pieces fit, and what's worth keeping.

I went to UC Berkeley four times. An M.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (with a focus on data science and machine learning), a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, and — the one I'm proudest of, honestly — a B.A. in Music. I conducted the Berkeley Philharmonia and assisted with the Symphony.

Most of my engineering work has been at the messy edges where data, ML, and infrastructure all touch. Fetch Rewards, NHERI SimCenter, Amazon Web Services. Each role taught me something different about what makes software work for the people stuck using it.

If you'd rather skim the formal version, here it is — the rest is below.

Previously

where I've worked, in reverse order

Mar 2025 — Jul 2025 · Remote

Analytics Engineer

Fetch Rewards

Worked on product catalog data infrastructure with SQL, Python, dbt, and Snowflake. Built an SCD table for catalog history, made Grafana dashboards for catalog metrics, translated Go barcode logic into Snowflake UDFs, and diagnosed faulty incremental logic in a 20M-row dbt model.

Jun 2023 — Dec 2024 · Berkeley, CA

Software Developer

NHERI SimCenter

Set up and managed the team's entire AWS environment for large-scale structural engineering simulations. Built nightly CI/CD via GitHub Actions, created Docker images for Qt/C++ apps, overhauled the HPC job scheduling interface, migrated Google Analytics from UA to GA4 to secure NSF funding.

Aug 2021 — Jun 2023 · Irwindale, CA

Software Developer

Business Needs Inc.

Built integration modules for academic scheduling software, automating data feeds from universities. Designed dashboards for deans and department chairs. Also built telemetric dashboards for fleet management clients.

Jun 2021 — Aug 2021 · Remote

Software Development Engineering Intern

Amazon Web Services

Built an AWS pipeline to automate I/O performance testing for NVMe storage driver releases. Designed the schema, created interactive Quicksight dashboards. The team used the results directly to verify driver performance before customer releases.

Schooling

four degrees, one school — UC Berkeley

Graduate

M.S. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Data Science & Machine Learning focus

Capstone with General Motors: modeled EV charging and driving behavior using ONSTAR data, generated synthetic datasets, analyzed grid impact, and optimized highway charger placement.

Undergraduate

B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

UC Berkeley EECS

Coursework in ML, AI, optimization, statistics, simulation. Capstone with Biosense Webster: anomaly detection in catheter production lines using environmental and behavioral data.

Undergraduate

B.S. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

UC Berkeley IEOR

Member of Alpha Pi Mu, the Industrial Engineering Honor Society.

Undergraduate

B.A. Music

UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science

Conductor and Concertmaster of the UC Berkeley Philharmonia Orchestra. Assistant Conductor of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra.

Stack

tools I reach for, more or less in order

PythonPyTorchSQLSnowflakedbtJavaC++AWSDockerGitLinuxAndroidUnityC#JavaScriptHTML/CSS

That's most of it. Write back if you want the rest.

Noam