I'm Bobby Ray, a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience building fast, reliable data systems in logistics, e-commerce, healthcare, and energy. I design and operate real-time and batch data pipelines using Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and Databricks on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. I've led initiatives to ingest millions of daily events from fleet telemetry, GPS sensors, and delivery updates; architected data warehouses and data marts with Kimball methodologies; and automated deployments with Terraform, Helm, AKS, and CI/CD. I enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights and collaborating with product and analytics teams to drive business impact.

Bobby Ray

I'm Bobby Ray, a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience building fast, reliable data systems in logistics, e-commerce, healthcare, and energy. I design and operate real-time and batch data pipelines using Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and Databricks on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. I've led initiatives to ingest millions of daily events from fleet telemetry, GPS sensors, and delivery updates; architected data warehouses and data marts with Kimball methodologies; and automated deployments with Terraform, Helm, AKS, and CI/CD. I enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights and collaborating with product and analytics teams to drive business impact.

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I’m Bobby Ray, a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience building fast, reliable data systems in logistics, e-commerce, healthcare, and energy.

I design and operate real-time and batch data pipelines using Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and Databricks on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. I’ve led initiatives to ingest millions of daily events from fleet telemetry, GPS sensors, and delivery updates; architected data warehouses and data marts with Kimball methodologies; and automated deployments with Terraform, Helm, AKS, and CI/CD. I enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights and collaborating with product and analytics teams to drive business impact.

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Senior Data Engineer at i3 Verticals
June 1, 2023 - Present
Lead real-time logistics tracking pipelines using Apache Flink, Kafka, and Spark Streaming on Azure Event Hubs and Databricks, ingesting 3M+ daily events from fleet telemetry, GPS sensors, and delivery updates. Built Kafka REST API interfaces to collect and load data into the Hadoop file system, and used Sqoop to load data from relational databases. Implemented real-time feeds with Kafka and Spark Streaming, converted to DataFrame formats, and stored as Parquet on HDFS. Designed and implemented data warehouses and data marts using Kimball methodology (Data Warehouse Bus, Confirmed Facts & Dimensions, Slowly Changing Dimensions, Surrogate Keys, Star/Snowflake schemas). Performed advanced text analytics and processing with in-memory Spark capabilities. Designed and deployed ETL/ELT workflows using Airflow and PySpark on Azure Data Factory, transforming raw operational data into analytics-ready datasets for route optimization and driver performance. Integrated predictive ML models into st
Mid-Level Data Engineer at TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions
September 1, 2020 - May 31, 2023
Migrated 150+ legacy ETL jobs from SQL Server to Apache Beam on GCP Dataflow, achieving 3x performance improvements and reduced overhead. Built a data lake architecture on AWS (S3, Glue Catalog, Athena) and supported analytics across marketing, sales, and fulfillment dashboards.
Data Engineer at Omnicell
October 1, 2017 - August 31, 2020
Assisted in building and maintaining ETL pipelines using Python and SQL, supporting analytics across marketing, sales, and fulfillment. Engineered data lake architecture using AWS S3, Glue Catalog, and Athena; supported analytics across marketing, sales, and fulfillment.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at University of Missouri - Columbia
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015

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Transportation & Logistics, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Healthcare, Energy & Utilities