Senior-level data engineer and author experienced with working in everything from startups to large corporate environments. Currently specializing in API development and designing scalable, parallel ETL systems. Strong interest in statistics and data science. Previous life was spent as a full stack web developer. Languages used include Go, Python, PHP, R, SQL, and JavaScript.

Senior Engineer @ Backend Go engineer. Responsible for an API that ingests user data for analytics. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Senior Data Engineer @ Full stack Python developer. Responsible for creating web applications on a SQLAlchemy/Pyramid platform. Assist in managing a large MariaDB/TokuDB and Memcached platform. Improved automated deployment and development by introducing tools such as pip, setuptools, and Liquibase. Managed offshore development team in creation and implementation of automated BDD testing using Behave. Launched fulltext search product using Sphinx and Solr. From January 2014 to July 2015 (1 year 7 months) Web Developer @ Lead PHP developer for dailydeals.com. Responsible for everything from ETL and data processing to PHP development to front end development. Assisted in managing the MongoDB database. Front end development was on a Twitter Bootstrap and Less platform. Created automated PHP test suites with PHPUnit and BDD suites using Behat/Mink. Development team used Kanban. Assisted Product Development team in workload and strategic decisions. Assisted intern in development issues. From December 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 1 month) Senior Developer @ Overhauled build system using technologies that included a PHP application, bash scripts, DOS scripts, and CCNet. Maintained PHP-based API and spearheaded rewrite using Zend 2, Doctrine, and RESTful methodology. Added Japanese language support to native Windows installer. Versed in localization and Unicode issues. From February 2012 to November 2012 (10 months) Senior Web Engineer @ From July 2009 to January 2012 (2 years 7 months) Software Engineer @ From September 2005 to July 2009 (3 years 11 months) Author @ Have published two books for Packt: PHPEclipse: A User Guide (ISBN: 1904811442) and PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects (ISBN: 184719088X). From December 2004 to December 2006 (2 years 1 month) Application Developer @ From May 2001 to August 2005 (4 years 4 months) Webmaster @ From May 1997 to August 2001 (4 years 4 months)

BA, Economics @ Rutgers University-New Brunswick From 2006 to 2008 Shu-Wai Chow is skilled in: Go, Python, SQL, PHP, MongoDB, R, RabbitMQ, CSS, Sphinx, Agile Methodologies, Subversion, Mobile Applications, HTML, XML, Enterprise Software