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Cody Hanson

Head of Engineering @ Arch.dev

Software engineer focused on architecting and building scalable cloud-based systems for data science and analytics.

Head of Engineering

Arch

October 2024 - Present

Leading engineering team through pivot to become an AI-first data platform.

  • •Led engineering team through pivot to become an AI-first data platform
  • •Prototyped initial AI features incorporating LangGraph into the stack
  • •Utilized AWS Bedrock to build autonomous agents for data infrastructure management
  • •Built and productionized an AI Analyst agent with Cubejs semantic layer for data visualization using Vega-Lite
  • •Oversaw organizational change management and adoption of LLM-powered development tools
  • •Increased team velocity while maintaining existing headcount of 6 engineers
  • •Expanded external-facing role, guided customer PoVs and high-touch onboarding
  • •Helped grow the company to first six figures in ARR while maintaining team health
LangGraph
AWS Bedrock
AI Agents
Cubejs
Vega-Lite

Engineering Manager

Arch

September 2023 - October 2024

Led the team in architecture and development of the new Arch platform.

  • •Led architecture and development of new Arch platform with FastAPI backend and NextJS + Tailwind + Shadcn frontend
  • •Contributed to comprehensive authentication and access control using Ory Hydra and Spicedb
  • •Contributed infrastructure for running Meltano pipelines and dbt jobs on Kubernetes
  • •Engineered PostgreSQL-based customer data warehouse provisioning and management system
  • •Successfully led the company's SOC2 Type 2 compliance certification process
  • •Maintained significant code contributions while managing engineering team
  • •Participated directly in sales and customer success as technical expert
  • •Drove product and technical roadmap based on customer interactions
FastAPI
NextJS
Tailwind
Ory Hydra
Spicedb
PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
dbt

Senior Software Engineer

Arch

March 2022 - September 2023

Primary contributor to the Meltano open source data integration platform.

  • •Served as primary contributor to the Meltano open source data integration platform and Singer SDK
  • •Built the initial Meltano Cloud platform using FastAPI, NextJS, and Pulumi
  • •Implemented infrastructure on AWS leveraging Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Cognito, RDS
  • •Set up comprehensive monitoring with DataDog for observability of customer data pipelines
  • •Designed and implemented distributed ETL orchestration system for processing customer workloads
  • •Contributed to architecture decisions for scalability and reliability of the platform
Python
FastAPI
NextJS
Pulumi
AWS
Lambda
DataDog

Senior Data Engineer

Sprout Social, Inc.

March 2020 - March 2022

Led data infrastructure initiatives and drove adoption of modern data tools.

  • •Led project to replatform data from Redshift to Redshift Spectrum to decouple storage from compute
  • •Drove adoption of Meltano to standardize ETL pipelines and leverage singer taps
  • •Built and maintained data pipelines in Airflow and PySpark processing large volumes of social media data
  • •Maintained and contributed to a Java HTTP API that powered the user behavior tracking system
Redshift
Meltano
Airflow
PySpark
Java
Singer

Senior Data Engineer

Arrive

August 2019 - March 2020

Managed data engineering roadmap and team development.

  • •Managed data engineering roadmap and prioritization
  • •Mentored junior data engineers and analysts
  • •Led requirements gathering and project planning with stakeholders
  • •Architected company's data infrastructure
  • •Designed and implemented practices and processes for code review, testing, and deployment
Python
AWS
Data Architecture
Team Leadership

DataOps Engineer

Arrive

April 2018 - August 2019

Built and maintained data infrastructure and self-service analytics platform.

  • •Built and maintained over three dozen ETL pipelines running primarily in Apache Airflow
  • •Architected and maintained data infrastructure in Amazon S3 and Redshift
  • •Acted as sole developer for self-service data portal with Flask API backend and React+Redux frontend
  • •Engineered automated testing and deploy pipelines for analytics projects using Drone and Jenkins
  • •Created automated monitoring and alerting tools with AWS Lambda, Cloudwatch, integrated with OpsGenie
Apache Airflow
S3
Redshift
Flask
React
Redux
AWS Lambda

Systems Engineer

PEAK6 Investments

July 2017 - April 2018

Developed automation for infrastructure and built ETL tools.

  • •Developed automation for configuration management and provisioning of virtualization and private cloud infrastructure
  • •Built automated ETL tools in Python using Pandas and multiprocessing
  • •Created tooling for monitoring and reporting of business-critical systems
Python
Pandas
Automation
Cloud Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Linguistics

The University of Chicago

2013 - 2017

Dean's List, Odyssey Scholar, National Merit Scholar

Skills

AI & LLM

LangGraph
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
LLM Integration
Semantic Layers

Languages

Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Java

Backend & Infrastructure

FastAPI
Kubernetes
Docker
AWS
Lambda
PostgreSQL
Redis

Frontend

React
NextJS
Tailwind CSS
Shadcn
Redux
Vega-Lite

Data Engineering

Airflow
dbt
Meltano
Singer
PySpark
Redshift
ETL Pipelines

DevOps & Tools

Pulumi
DataDog
Jenkins
Drone
Git
SOC2 Compliance