Tyler Norlund

Education

MS: Data Science
May 2020

BS: Computer Engineering
Dec 2018

Experience

Staff Data Engineer
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026

MonkeyTilt
Las Vegas, NV
  • Architected a governed, real-time data platform on ClickHouse, Kafka, Django, and Kubernetes, centralizing player, transaction, and reporting data into a trusted source of truth for finance, product, and operations
  • Modernized executive finance reporting into a production, SQL-first pipeline, reconciling sports betting, manual adjustments, wallet balances, and test players across ClickHouse, OpenSearch, and Google Sheets
  • Established analytics governance and lineage with dbt-managed ClickHouse layers, semantic metadata, PII classification, and OpenLineage patterns, making business logic auditable and reported metrics trustworthy
  • Operationalized product data delivery with profile-archive, backfill, and downstream flows across OpenSearch, S3, ClickHouse, and rewards services, enabling historical replay, safer rollouts, and CI/CD
Staff Data Engineer, E-commerce & Law
Sept 2020 - Present

TNOR
Remote
  • Architected an enterprise-scale streaming platform (Kafka/Kinesis) processing 20k+ events/second, powering real-time ML feature stores that drove product decisions
  • Designed a high-performance search architecture with distributed vector search (FAISS + ChromaDB), achieving 100x faster telemetry retrieval for real-time anomaly detection
  • Pioneered self-service analytics through RAG systems and MCP servers, eliminating 80% of ad-hoc reporting requests and giving non-technical stakeholders direct data access
  • Migrated ML systems from MongoDB to PostgreSQL with zero downtime, improving query performance 75% across 50+ services
  • Owned cloud platform architecture with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) for EKS, Lambda, and Step Functions, reducing deployment time 90% via GitHub Actions
Software Engineer, Data Platform
May 2021 - Feb 2024

Dollar Shave Club
Marina Del Rey, CA
  • Led an enterprise analytics platform transformation, migrating from Databricks/Scala to AWS EMR/Python, cutting operational cost 80% while improving query performance 10x for 100+ users
  • Redesigned the ETL ecosystem with Apache Airflow, AWS EMR, and dbt, automating 500+ daily workflows at 99.9% uptime for critical business reporting
  • Drove $10M in revenue impact through marketing analytics, integrating Braze CRM with Tableau to improve customer acquisition cost 40% and retention 25%
  • Scaled real-time infrastructure for D2C operations with a production Kafka/Spark streaming platform for personalization and inventory optimization
Data Technician
March 2019 - Sept 2020

Oculus - Contract
Menlo Park, CA
  • Analyzed IMU data with robotics and spatial tracking to identify key performance metrics
  • Created and maintained local ETL pipelines for data cleaning and processing
  • Utilized Jupyter Notebooks to explore and visualize data, producing actionable insights
  • Leveraged Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to manage and visualize back-end data, streamlining collaboration
Data Scientist
Jan 2020 - May 2020

Charles Schwab
San Francisco, CA
  • Implemented customer-segmentation strategies to guide executive-level decision-making
  • Automated data extraction and labeling pipelines using NLP tools
  • Produced interactive visualizations with D3, Tableau, and matplotlib
  • Engineered directed and undirected graphs to optimize web-scraping operations
Performance Analyst
June 2017 - Dec 2017

NVIDIA - Intern
Santa Clara, CA
  • Scripted automated data aggregation for performance testing, reducing manual overhead
  • Pioneered networking techniques for massive server farm management
  • Benchmarked C++ and Python frameworks across various hardware setups to ensure optimal performance
  • Developed a LAMP stack front end to analyze and compare multiple project roadmaps