Niall Woodward

SELECT is the leading Snowflake cost and performance management solution, providing tools, governance and insights to optimize your Snowflake data warehouse. Founded in 2022 by co-founders Ian Whitestone and Niall Woodward, we're taking all our learnings and building a best-in-class experience to help as many companies as possible maximize their Snowflake ROI.

- Overhauled the data ecosystem to increase robustness through data quality testing, alerting, and migration of over ten micro-services including Airflow from ECS to Kubernetes. - Re-architected dbt modelling structure and deployment, delivering training to maximise development velocity, availability and reliability. - Created a dbt package to improve dbt project structure and efficiency - https://github.com/tailsdotcom/dbt_artifacts - Rolled out DevOps best practices across the data team such as CI/CD, Terraform, along with low-friction development and deployment processes. - Managed the Snowflake data warehouse using infrastructure-as-code for reusable pipeline abstractions. - Created a self-service model deployment environment on Kubernetes for the data science team, enabling tailored experiences in customer-facing applications.

- Government-funded research group, developing a wireless charging enabled drone to collect data from and recharge a distributed sensor network. - Created a cross-platform desktop mapping application using Electron and React.js, visualising imported sensor data and facilitating route planning.

- Delivered contributions to the self-serve internal analytics platform, using Looker, dbt and BigQuery. - Processed large datasets using Apache Airflow to schedule Apache Beam jobs on Cloud Dataflow.