hayden brown

data engineer · ny

4+ years experience building data infrastructure and pipelines. I make reliable systems so we can get to the fun stuff. ☺︎
Currently @ NY's largest labor union; OMSCS student @ Georgia Tech

me@haydenbrown.dev linkedin github

experience

senior data analyst/engineer

csea local 1000 · sep 2024 – present · albany, ny

· Own Python ETL pipeline standardizing files from 1,400+ government agencies, surfacing 30,000+ previously unreported union-eligible workers for targeted organizing
· Manage AWS infrastructure supporting 160,000+ member records, serving as internal point of contact for cloud operations and vendor coordination
· Architect production Salesforce schema to replace legacy UnionWare system, defining entity relationships for operational workloads
· Lead migration of 25+ years of legacy cron jobs into an observable, centralized Dagster DAG cascade

data analyst

csea local 1000 · apr 2022 – sep 2024 · albany, ny

· Built and maintained 30+ live SplashBI dashboards powering outreach campaigns for a union steering committee representing 200,000+ workers
· Led security overhaul of legacy Node.js application, refactoring 300+ PostgreSQL queries to eliminate SQL injection vulnerabilities in member-facing systems
· Designed Neo4j graph database modeling complex many-to-many relationships across 1,800+ employers, creating navigable knowledge base of union organizational structure

skills

languages

PythonSQLJavaScript (Node.js)Shell

databases

PostgreSQLRedisMongoDBNeo4j

cloud & infra

AWS (EC2, S3)Docker

orchestration

AirflowDagsterCI/CD

visualization

QuickSightSplashBIGrafana

data & ml