Sean Matthews

Delivering Agentic Data Engineering Solutions to Enable Business Transformation & Growth

Denver Metropolitan Area

About

The most interesting initiatives I've worked on didn't start with a specific technology but rather, conversations inspired by ambitious goals. Over the past 10+ years, I've partnered closely with engineering, product, go-to-market, finance and other teams to build systems that unlock new capabilities. I'm especially passionate about unifying data across domains to inform investment and strategy decisions. Some high-impact wins from that work include: * Integrated agentic technology to cut development cycles and boost team impact. * Reduced incidents by 70% and exceeded SLA targets across terabyte-scale pipelines. * Boosted operational efficiency by 30% for a $750M business division. I'm at my best when the data team is a true business partner, not a service unit. If you're building something ambitious and want an outcome focused collaborator who starts with your goals, not just the stack, let's connect.

Experience

  • Senior Consultant Data Engineering and Architecture at Astrodata
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Senior Data Engineer and Architect at Resonant Technology Solutions
    Nov 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Deliver strategic data engineering and automation solutions for businesses, focusing on building scalable data foundations and enabling AI/ML processes and data-driven decision-making. - Contributed to AWS data lake initiative supporting AI/ML capabilities, developing foundational services to support ingestion, transformation, and management of high-volume sensitive data . - Leveraged agentic tools and IAC platforms to accelerate the development cycle and business impact. - Led the architecture and development of data pipelines, models, and end user products resulting in accelerated onboarding and staffing for a $750M healthcare business division. - Engineered a 20% reduction in Snowflake costs through strategic optimization of queries, warehouse configurations, and data modeling. - Architected and implemented a foundational analytics framework, defining key business metrics, developing pipelines and data models.

  • Senior Data Engineer, Analytics Lead at CircleCI
    Feb 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Led key initiatives to integrate new services, develop data pipelines, and design data assets to enable insights into CI/CD usage by over 2M users and 20K organizations. - Created data platform managing terabyte volumes of data to provide insight into product usage, account growth opportunities, and financial trends. - Boosted user conversion targets by 16% through the development of Customer 360 data models combining activity from CRM, marketing, and product usage data to support improved targeting and personalization campaigns. - Utilized AI & ML methods to support product usage forecasting, fraud classification, and contract data analytics. - Apply data optimizations to warehouse balancing, object storage, and query management as well as data privacy controls such as encrypting and masking. - Mentored and developed a team of analysts and junior engineers on SDLC best practices, including scripting, version control, testing, documentation, and stakeholder management, fostering a culture of data excellence. - Administered Snowflake, dbt core, and Looker project environments, including pull requests, package maintenance, and ci/cd jobs while ensuring proper data governance and security.

  • Senior Analytics Engineer, Product Analyst at DHI Group, Inc.
    Jul 2019 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Partnered with core business groups and leadership to define metrics and develop data assets to support aligned decisions across multiple brands and markets exceeding $130M. - Supported web/app product feature testing and GTM campaign analyses evaluating conversion, investment, and retention performance for over 1.3M monthly users. - Increased DAU by over 2000% in the first month post launch of a new messaging product through the development of data pipelines, data models, and reporting assets. - Applied forecasting, regression, clustering, decision trees, and other statistical methods in analyses and visualizations to support sound decision making. - Supported and interpreted A/B split testing campaigns for product and marketing campaigns. - Diagnosed low performing funnel stages to identify issues generated from user actions and application behaviors, enabling teams to quickly respond to achieve conversion targets. - Contributed to migration to Redshift through the development of data pipelines and data models. Utilized AWS services including Kinesis, s3, Lambda, Glue, and EC2. - Developed data models using SQL and python, utilizing Kimball, Star, and Snowflake design patterns to ensure scalability and flexibility. - Managed dbt Core, Redshift, and Tableau environments. Implemented data product development standards and code review process.

  • Senior System Analyst at Wells Fargo
    Jul 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Modernized digital infrastructure for the Capital Finance Division. - Defined capabilities for the development of new data lake, warehouse, and reporting assets, producing data map artifacts, data models, transformation scripts, and QA tests. - Developed analytical scripts, using SQL and python, to surface KPIs as well as dynamic dashboards to support proactive monitoring.