Tommy Unger
Leading the way toward data-driven solutions, experiences, insights, and decisions.

• emailfirst.last@gmail.com
• locationSeattle, WA

Work experience

AudioEye	Director of analytics 2021 - current Lead data sciencist/engineers building large-scale data pipeline (AWS, Kinesis, S3, Spectrum, Redshift). Lower AWS costs by 70% while increasing functionality, reliability directly impacting gross margins. Lead and implement KPI metrics and dashboards for key business products, services, and departments.
University of Washington	Instructor - data visualization 2016 - current Teach a hands-on data visualization continuing education course for working professionals. Focus on the scaffolding of data visualization strategies including: history of datavis, understanding your audience, data acquisition and cleaning, and building tool proficiency in Tableau and Excel.
Qumulo	Lead data scientist & product manager 2014 - 2021 Envision, research & launch industry-leading analytics & UX solutions on an enterprise data storage system. Manage a team focused on analytics, design, and data science. Manage the design & launch of a data-driven prefetch solution increasing customer read performance. Tableau, Jupyter, Python, SQL to across product, business. Present to small teams and the whole company. Launch cloud-based monitoring/analytics platform used by 90% of our customer base.
Redfin	Real estate data scientist 2013 - 2014 Brainstorm, research, design and write data-driven stories about the real estate market including: Cities a Billionaire Can Buy and Hottest Neighborhoods. Achieving all-time highs for web blog traffic. Build solutions to analyze real estate markets using SQL, AWS Redshift, HTML, css, Javascript, d3.js
Optify	Product manager - data & analytics 2009 - 2013 Design & manage a pixel-tracking system (like Google Analytics) for deep knowledge of website visitors. Create software solutions that helped companies improve search engine rankings via links & content. Drive company decisions and innovation with data science for SEO, website tracking, , business intelligence.
Zillow	Senior data analyst 2006 - 2009 Analyze national and local residential real estate markets. Billions of data points processed. Build quarterly reports used by national media, including WSJ, NYT. C#, SQL Server, Windows scripting. Lead the creation and deployment of a set of open source US city neighborhood boundary maps.
Microsoft	Software development engineer/test 2001 - 2005 Build stress testing scripts and automation for the ASP.Net web server platform. Build a performance testing app & database system for measuring the speed & stability of ASP.Net/IIS.

Patents

• Filesystem capacity and performance metrics and visualizations, 10,095,709 & 9,836,480
• Analyzing and visualizing trends in the use and consumption of data in a shared storage system, 10,318,494 & 10,409,784
• Client aware pre-fetch policy scoring system & dynamic selection of file system pre-fetch policy, 10,614,033 10,474,635
• Recommending link placement opportunities, 20140188608

Tools & Technologies

• Databases: Redshift, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL | NoSQL: MongDb, InfluxDb | Code: Python, C#, JavaScript, REST APIs | Visualization/reporting: Tableau, Metabase, d3.js, p5.js

Education

• Computer science, BS, Georgia Tech: Human-computer interaction and data focus. Co-op program at Manhattan Associates and an education software startup. Member of Georgia Tech Soccer Club team. Volunteer mentor, Techwood Tutorial Project.