Public CV

Mallory Brickerd-Eland

Senior Data Engineer

Professional Summary

Senior Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable data platforms, ML pipelines, and cloud-native solutions across GCP, Azure, and AWS. Proven track record delivering production-grade data engineering and ML systems for global enterprises across retail, financial services, pharmaceuticals, public sector, and logistics. Expert in dbt, BigQuery, Apache Airflow, PySpark, and Terraform, with deep hands-on experience in ML engineering and MLOps. Equally comfortable architecting governed medallion-layer data models, building end-to-end SageMaker pipelines, or shipping FastAPI microservices into production. Certified in Azure (AZ-900, DP-203) and AWS ML Specialty.

Skills

Data Engineering

Cloud & Infrastructure

Machine Learning & MLOps

Experience

Skills

Data Engineering

SQLPythonApache AirflowBigQuerydbtData ModellingPySpark

Cloud & Infrastructure

GCPAzureAWSTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDAzure DevOps

Machine Learning & MLOps

Machine LearningMLOpsMLflowAWS SageMakerSHAPModel MonitoringPyTorchFastAPI

Work History

09/2025 to present

Freelance Senior Data Engineer

The Moose StackThe Netherlands

  • Employee Survey Data PlatformDesigned and delivered a complete Azure-native event-driven data platform to ingest, validate, and transform employee survey data through a medallion architecture, with a reusable Terraform module library and full CI/CD via Azure DevOps.
  • Client Survey Report AutomationBuilt containerised R Shiny web applications that automate the generation of employee survey manager reports and PowerPoint consulting decks from Azure Blob Storage, replacing a fully manual consultant process.
  • PULSE — Event-Driven Fraud Risk PlatformBuilt a Kubernetes-native, event-driven microservices platform in Kotlin for real-time transaction fraud risk scoring, running on GKE with Kafka and GCP Pub/Sub messaging, OpenTelemetry observability, and Terraform-managed GCP infrastructure.
08/2025 to present

Senior Data Engineer

bol.comUtrecht, the Netherlands

  • Fraud Detection ML Model UpgradeUpgraded a fraudulent retailer detection ML model and introduced a structured MLflow-based retraining and monitoring framework.
06/2024 to 07/2025

Senior Data Engineer

EraneosAmsterdam, the Netherlands

  • Analytics Data Hub — Orchestration & Domain ModellingDesigned a Cloud Composer and dbt orchestration framework for the Analytics Data Hub and led migration of the Sales Order domain into governed BigQuery dbt models.
  • Regulatory Compliance API — DOR IntegrationBuilt a FastAPI-based Azure Function to automate vehicle transaction registration with the Digitaal Opkopers Registraar (DOR), ensuring real-time regulatory compliance.
  • Spare Parts Smart Matching EngineBuilt a PySpark semantic and graph-based matching engine on Azure Databricks to identify unlinked train spare parts in SBB's SAP data, resolving 25% of missing records.
01/2023 to 05/2024

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

EraneosAmsterdam, the Netherlands

  • Forecasting Pipeline Modernisation & ExplainabilityModernised a legacy R-based forecasting ETL pipeline to a scalable Python/PySpark stack on Databricks via Azure Data Factory, delivering SHAP-based explainability and MLflow model tracking across thousands of SKUs.
01/2021 to 12/2022

Machine Learning Engineer

EraneosAmsterdam, the Netherlands

  • Global Spare Parts Procurement OptimizationBuilt a semantic matching solution using PyTorch on AWS SageMaker to identify equivalent spare parts across Heineken's global supplier and factory network.
  • AWS ML Platform — Repayment Prediction at ScaleBuilt a production-grade MLOps platform on AWS SageMaker for two repayment prediction models, with CI/CD via CodeBuild/CodeCommit and automated training, deployment, and monitoring pipelines from scratch.
03/2019 to 12/2020

Junior Data Scientist

EraneosAmsterdam, the Netherlands

  • Personalisation & Recommendation EngineBuilt and deployed a collaborative filtering recommendation engine using matrix factorisation, integrated with Airflow and deployed on AWS SageMaker for Pathé's email marketing campaigns.
  • Prescription Fulfillment Optimization PlatformBuilt a digital twin and heuristic optimization system for automated prescription fulfillment across three iterative phases, delivering €500K in cost savings in the first year.

Education

Bachelor of Science: Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

The College of William & Mary — Williamsburg, Virginia, United States, 05/2016

Certifications

Languages

English: Native languageDutch: Professional working proficiency

Hobbies

BoxingCyclingYogaDIYPhotographyDJ