Amara Mensah

Raizen developer profile — @amara_mensah

Staff Analytics Engineer at Airbnb

Analytics engineer turned ML. I make Spark jobs and dbt models that scientists actually trust.

Location: Chicago, IL

Ranked #6 on the Raizen verified-developer leaderboard.

Website: https://github.com/amaramensah

Experience

• Staff Analytics Engineer at Airbnb

  2021-02-01 – Present

  Feature and training-set warehouses on Spark + dbt. Contracts for ML consumers.

Education

• University of Waterloo

  B.A.Sc., Computer Engineering

  2014-09-01 – 2019-04-30

Verified skills

• dbt
• delta
• spark
• python
• pytorch

Projects

• Evalmart

  dbt package that versions eval sets next to production facts. One command to rebuild a frozen bench.

• Sparklint for model features

  Null, leakage, and freshness checks as Spark jobs with Slack diffs.