David Smith

David Smith is a Senior Data Engineer at John Hancock since March 2020, after initially serving as a Data Engineer from May 2019 to March 2020, and has received the 2019 Manulife Star of Excellence for contributions to the US Segment. Key achievements include designing and deploying APIs for enterprise data lakes, implementing monitoring systems for Spark batch jobs, and managing data ingestion projects from multiple sources. Prior experience includes a role as a Software Engineer/Data Scientist Co-op at Radial Analytics, where predictive modeling and ETL pipeline development were essential tasks, and a position at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution contributing to published research. Additional roles include working at ChoiceStream,Inc. on optimization pipelines and at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center focusing on code parallelization. David Smith holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Northeastern University, earned in 2019.