Ben Fox

Staff Data Engineer at Galileo

Ben Fox has over 20 years of work experience in various roles related to data engineering and analysis. Ben started their career as a Typesetter/Graphic Designer at The Value News in 2000. Ben then worked as a Stock/Clerk at See's Candies and later as an Alarm Technician at Vivint.

In 2011, Ben joined Ancestry.com as a Business Intelligence Developer and later became a Project Lead/Database Analyst. Ben was responsible for creating effective ad-hoc reports, converting data types, troubleshooting tools, and collaborating with team members.

From 2015 to 2018, Ben worked as a Data Engineer at Health Catalyst, where they gained experience in data engineering and analysis. Following this, they joined Compliance & Risks in 2018 as a MySQL Database Administrator. In this role, they managed databases, upgraded MySQL to a cluster, created scripts for automation, and generated business data trends.

Ben then moved on to work at Rad Power Bikes as a Senior Data Engineer, where they worked in an agile team to bring data from different sources into a data warehouse. Ben also worked as a Data Engineer at Toptal, where they created data pipelines, visualized data in Tableau reports, and integrated data with APIs.

In 2022, Ben joined Babyscripts as a Senior Data Engineer/Analyst. Ben'sresponsibilities included migrating data to a central warehouse, rebuilding KPI reports, and utilizing various tools to improve business processes.

Currently, they are working at Galileo as a Staff Data Engineer, contributing to data engineering projects.

Throughout their career, Ben has demonstrated expertise in data engineering, data modeling, scripting, data visualization, and database administration. Ben has also gained proficiency in various tools and technologies such as AWS, Snowflake, Postgres, fivetran, dbt, and Python.

Ben Fox has a Master's Degree in Information Systems from the University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, which they obtained from 2015 to 2016. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Brigham Young University, where they studied from 2008 to 2012. In addition to their formal education, they have also obtained the Tableau Server Qualified Associate certification from Tableau Software in September 2014.

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Timeline

  • Staff Data Engineer

    February, 2023 - present