Zachary Adler

Data Engineer @ Warner Bros Discovery - Max

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Warner Bros. Discovery (Full-time · 5 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Data Engineer
      Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    • Data Engineer II
      Aug 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Scholastic (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Data Engineer
      Feb 2020 - Aug 2020 · 7 mos

    • Associate Data Engineer
      Aug 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Developed a framework to use AWS Glue and AWS Redshift Spectrum to allow scalable access company data directly from our S3 Data Lake, helping lighten AWS Redshift cluster storage loads and allowing improved performance to replace existing data pipelines with a more robust data flow, as well as alleviating cost for excess redundant storage on both S3 and Redshift clusters. Worked with Systems Engineers to deploy SAS and Jenkins infrastructure for our data analytics and marketing teams. Performed a POC on an in-house data lineage system that would used by data engineers to describe data flow for business units. Hands-on experience with AWS services and creating ETL processes from various sources by using S3, Amazon Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Lambda, Step Functions, and Glue as well as the Hadoop ecosystem. Understanding business units and consumers’ needs to provide them with clean and useful data to be used in analytical modeling and reporting as well as providing solutions to data issues that arise in the downstream data they use.

  • Software Engineer Co-op Intern at Scholastic
    Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 · 3 mos

    Full Stack Data Engineer. Developed a multi-processing python script to expedite full load API calls. Used AWS services S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Redshift Spectrum to document Adobe Analytics data. Developed a cohort analysis using tableau.

  • Product Management Intern at Sprinklr
    Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 · 3 mos

    Developed client-facing API documentation. Participated in an intern project with teams across Sprinklr to build an editable info-graphic sales presentation for marketing strategy. Learned and practiced the importance of writing clean and readable code that would be used for future development projects.

  • Lifeguard at NYS Pool Management Company of LI Inc.
    May 2015 - Aug 2015 · 4 mos

    Responded to emergencies and provision of emergency care and treatment required until Professional Emergency Services arrive.